cometary discovery

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• Discovery Program — Not to be confused with Space Shuttle Discovery. NASA s Discovery Program (as compared to New Frontiers, Explorers, or Flagship Programs) is a series of lower cost, highly focused American scientific space missions that are exploring the Solar… …   Wikipedia

• Discovery and exploration of the Solar System — The Sun and planets of the Solar System. (Pluto is now classed as a dwarf planet, and is not shown). The relative sizes of objects are drawn to scale; the distances between them are not. For many thousands of years,[clarification needed] …   Wikipedia

• comet — cometary /kom i ter ee/, cometic /keuh met ik/, cometical, adj. cometlike, adj. /kom it/, n. Astron. a celestial body moving about the sun, usually in a highly eccentric orbit, consisting of a central mass surrounded by an envelope of dust and… …   Universalium

• Comet — This article is about the astronomical object. For other uses, see Comet (disambiguation). Comet Hale– …   Wikipedia

• Comet Hale–Bopp — C/1995 O1 (Hale–Bopp) Discovery Discovered by: Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp Discovery date: July 23, 1995 Alternate designations: The Great Comet of …   Wikipedia

• Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 — D/1993 F2 (Shoemaker–Levy) Image of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 fragments (total: 21), taken on May 17, 1994 Discovery Discovered by: Carolyn Shoemaker Eugene M. Shoemaker David Levy Discovery date …   Wikipedia

• 2060 Chiron — 95P/Chiron Discovery Discovered by Charles T. Kowal Discovery date October 18, 1977 …   Wikipedia

• Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 — Shoemaker Levy redirects here. For other Shoemaker Levy comets see List of periodic comets. Infobox Comet name=SL9 (Shoemaker Levy) caption=Image of Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 fragments (total: 21), taken on May 17, 1994 discoverer= Carolyn Shoemaker …   Wikipedia

• Comet Hyakutake — C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) Comet Hyakutake captured by the Hubble Space Telescope on April 4, 1996, with an infrared filter. Discovery and designation …   Wikipedia

• Planets beyond Neptune — Planet X redirects here. For the Planet X doomsday scenario, see Nibiru collision. For other uses, see Planet X (disambiguation). Trans Neptunian planets redirects here. For dwarf planets and small bodies discovered beyond Neptune, see Trans… …   Wikipedia

• Asteroid belt — For the album by Velvet Chain, see Asteroid Belt (album). The asteroid belt (shown in white) is located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The asteroid belt is the region of the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets… …   Wikipedia