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		Rowan's Astrophotography Page ^Votes:0 College of Staten Island ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY Hale-Bopp Photomania Click on highlighted image file size# for a larger view. [ All photos were taken by Keith Rowan using 800 ASA Fugicolor SuperG+ film with a 50mm lens SLR on a tripod ] Comet C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp) was discovered on July 23, 1995 by two astronomers, Alan Hale and Thoamas Bopp. The comet has an approximate diameter of 10-25 miles (large for a comet) and it's tail streched for tens of millions of miles into space. Comet Hale-Bopp made it's closest approach to Earth on the evening of March 22, 1997 and was most likely the brightest comet seen so far this century! So bright was this comet that it was plainly visible with the naked-eye in urban areas for over a month. It last passed through our solar system around 2214 BC and Read More Go to Site


		SL9 Conference ^Votes:0 SL9 Conference Composite image of SL9 taken at Pic-du-Midi Observatory in March 1994 Final Announcement - 96/05/23 Organizing committee Final Program List of abstracts Poster of the meeting: jpeg (80K) or gif (150K) Images NEW Read More Go to Site

		Amarillo.com ^Votes:0 Site Web REAL ESTATE JOBS AUTOS CLASSIFIEDS SHOPPING ARCHIVES YELLOW ADVANTAGE --> PLACE AN AD CONTACT US SUBSCRIBE NEWS SPORTS BUSINESS OPINION OBITUARIES ENTERTAINMENT FEATURES PHOTOS & VIDEO COMMUNITY Sections Community Multimedia Special Features Reader Input Local Weather Texas National Our Town Baxter Black Jon Mark Beilue Delbert Trew Blogs Faith Dockets Business Directory AP Video Photo Galleries Spotted Site Index Today's Front Page Discover Amarillo Vision 2007 Visit Amarillo Best of Amarillo City Guide Reader Photos Submit a Story Submit Feedback Contact Us Sections Community Multimedia Special Features Reader Input Middle School High School WTAMU College Dillas Dusters Gorillas Columnists Pro Sports Outdoors Kids Inc. Club Sports City League Business Directory Pigskin Review Vo Read More Go to Site

		Chiron Information and Documentation ^Votes:0 Chiron Information and Documentation A contribution to the observation and study of the Chiron perihelion passage. Chiron is a minor body discovered by Charles Kowal on photographic plates made on 18 and 19 October 1977. From the beginning astronomers had doubts about Chiron's nature: is it an asteroid, or is it a comet? In 1988 a tail was observed, indicating that this celestial body is a comet. The astronomers' eyes are pointed toward Chiron. It goes through its perihelion on 1996 February 14. This happens only every 51 years. Chiron will reach its shortest distance to the earth since its discovery. A Chiron Perihelion Campaign (CPC) has been established. The CPC home page also offers a bunch of information about this phenomenon. These pages offer: New additions and changes to these page Read More Go to Site

		comet comet comet comet comet comet comet comet comet ^Votes:0 Comet Home This page and its links are dedicated to an overview of the comets Nucleus Mantle Interior Coma Tail Origin Oort Cloud Kuiper Belt KB2Comet Damocloids The comets are ice-rich bodies that become prominent when heat from the sun causes their trapped volatiles to sublimate. The most visible and distinctive features of comets are the coma and tail. However, most of the mass of a comet is contained within a comparatively tiny central nucleus, and it is this body that is of the highest scientific interest because of its likely identity as a planetesimal from the outer regions of the solar nebula. Click on a picture to follow a link. Jewitt Kuiper Belt since 12/9/1997 Copyright Read More Go to Site

		Comet Hale-Bopp Home Page (JPL) ^Votes:0 Comet Hale-Bopp The Great Comet of 1997 Observer: Maurice Clark Location: Yericoin, Western Australia Date: February 7, 2000 --> Earth Closest Approach: March 22, 1997 (1.315 AU) Sun Closest Approach: April 1, 1997 03:14 UT (0.914 AU) 1 AU = 93 Million Miles = 150 Million Kilometers "I predict that this could be the most viewed comet in all of human history." - Daniel Green "MOMMY, MOMMY, I saw the VOMIT!" - Anonymous 4-year old On July 23, 1995, an unusually bright comet outside of Jupiter's orbit (7.15 AU!) was discovered independently by Alan Hale, New Mexico and Thomas Bopp, Arizona. The new comet, designated C/1995 O1, is the farthest comet ever discovered by amateurs and appeared 1000 times brighter than Comet Halley did at the same distance. Normally, comets are inert when they are Read More Go to Site

		Comet hits Jupiter ^Votes:0 Comet Shoemaker-Levy hits Jupiter Please Visit: Don Gavel's High Resolution Astronomy Pages Comet Shoemaker-Levy Impact Sites -- Observed at Lick 3 Meter Shane Telescope July 22, 1994 July 20, 1994 July 19, 1994 July 18, 1994 July 17, 1994 July 15, 1994 May 26, 1994 , with a description of how the images were made For more information on these images, contact: gavel1@llnl.gov -- Don Gavel LLNL Disclaimers UCRL MI-117703 Read More Go to Site

		Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 ^Votes:0 C omet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impact: Analysis and Interpretation (6 months after event) by Amara Graps Macworld Exposition, San Francisco January 4, 1995 This 25 minute talk explored popular aspects of the Summer 1994's major celestial event, including comet impact dynamics, its effect on the cloud system of Jupiter, observations of several of the major impacts, predictions and puzzles, and sources for more information. C omet SL9 Impact Contents: Comet Background Why So Interesting? Observations Dynamics Surprise! Fragment A Fragment G Fragment R Fragment W Site Montage Post Impact Predictions and Puzzles Information To Download This Article: Press HERE for this article in pdf format. (2.1 Mbytes). Science Resources Home Last Modified by Amara Graps on 26 November 2003. © Copyright Amara Graps Read More Go to Site

		Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Collision with Jupiter ^Votes:0 [ Impact Images \| Other Images \| Information \| Web Sites \| Comments \| SEDS Page ] On 1994 July 16-22, over twenty fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with the planet Jupiter. The comet, discovered the previous year by astronomers Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker and David Levy, was observed by astronomers at hundreds of observatories around the world as it crashed into Jupiter's southern hemisphere. This Web site is here to provide some of the images taken by amateur and professional astronomers before, during, and after the events, and to provide more information on this historic event. Impact Images Spectacular images of Jupiter during and after the impacts Other Images Comet and and Jupiter images, and computer simulations, from before the impacts Information Before-and-after persp Read More Go to Site

		Comets ^Votes:0 Comets Unlike the other small bodies in the solar system, comets have been known since antiquity. There are Chinese records of Comet Halley going back to at least 240 BC. The famous Bayeux Tapestry , which commemorates the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, depicts an apparition of Comet Halley. As of 1995, 878 comets have been cataloged and their orbits at least roughly calculated. Of these 184 are periodic comets (orbital periods less than 200 years); some of the remainder are no doubt periodic as well, but their orbits have not been determined with sufficient accuracy to tell for sure. Comets are sometimes called dirty snowballs or "icy mudballs". They are a mixture of ices (both water and frozen gases) and dust that for some reason didn't get incorporated into planets when the solar s Read More Go to Site

		Comets ^Votes:0 Comets Unlike the other small bodies in the solar system, comets have been known since antiquity. There are Chinese records of Comet Halley going back to at least 240 BC. The famous Bayeux Tapestry , which commemorates the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, depicts an apparition of Comet Halley. As of 1995, 878 comets have been cataloged and their orbits at least roughly calculated. Of these 184 are periodic comets (orbital periods less than 200 years); some of the remainder are no doubt periodic as well, but their orbits have not been determined with sufficient accuracy to tell for sure. Comets are sometimes called dirty snowballs or "icy mudballs". They are a mixture of ices (both water and frozen gases) and dust that for some reason didn't get incorporated into planets when the solar s Read More Go to Site

		IfA -- Comet Hale-Bopp ^Votes:0 IfA -- Comet Hale-Bopp Comet Hale-Bopp at the UH Institute for Astronomy C omet Hale-Bopp is now moving away from the inner Solar System. As it receives less energy from the Sun, the cometary activity is slowing down, the tail is disappearing and the comet will rapidly become too faint to be observed with small telescope. While this marks the end of Hale-Bopp's public performance, it is not the end of the story: we plan to continue observing it as long as possible. The decrease and cessation of a comet's activity give very interesting information on its composition and history, so we are trying to observe comets as far as possible from the Sun. A typical comet nucleus has a diameter of 1 to 10 km, and is extremely dark, so that task is far from easy and requires big telescopes and very lon Read More Go to Site

		International Meteor Organization \| International Collaboration in Meteor Science ^Votes:0 International Meteor Organization Links Meteor Science Organization Home Organization Introduction Publications Journal WGN Conference Ongoing Projects Mailing List Who Is Who Membership Meteor Science Observations Visual Photographic Video Radio Telescopic Fireball Data Shower Calendar 2007 2008 Software Glossary Search The International Meteor Organization (IMO) was founded in 1988 and has more than 250 members now. IMO was created in response to an ever growing need for international cooperation of meteor amateur work. The collection of meteor observations by several methods from all around the world ensures the comprehensive study of meteor showers and their relation to comets and interplanetary dust. You can read about the history, current aims and commissions of IMO. An additional pa Read More Go to Site

		Mailing List Highlights \| Meteorite Central ^Votes:0 Welcome Blog Forums Intro Links Mailing List Archives Gallery New forum topics PLATO PUTORANO like MESOSIDERITE METEORITE A Meteorite Hunters Film or TV Series Rosetta gravity assist flyby Impacts mali fall more >> Active forum topics PLATO PUTORANO like MESOSIDERITE METEORITE A Meteorite Hunters Film or TV Series more >> html .fb_share_link { padding:2px 0 0 20px; height:16px; background:url(http://static.ak.facebook.com/images/share/facebook_share_icon.gif?6:26981) no-repeat top left; } Share on Facebook rss feed Mailing List Highlights Login to post a new forum topic. Topic Replies Created Last reply PLATO PUTORANO like MESOSIDERITE METEORITE 4 1 day 12 hours ago by metcentral 1 day 11 hours ago by metcentral Rosetta gravity assist flyby 13 6 days 22 hours ago by metcentral Read More Go to Site

		Meteorites and Their Properties ^Votes:0 David A. Kring Lunar and Planetary Laboratory Department of Planetary Sciences The University of Arizona 1629 E. University Blvd. Tucson, Arizona 85721-0092 1998 © David A. Kring World Wide Web Edition [ T a b l e o f C o n t e n t s ] [ I n t r o d u c t i o n ] [ E n E s p a Ñ o l ] Read More Go to Site

		Meteorites, Meteorites and Impacts ^Votes:0 Meteors, Meteorites and Impacts Hardcopy The New Solar System Summarizes what we've learned from interplanetary explorations in the last 25 years. My primary reference for The Nine Planets . T. Rex and the Crater of Doom The story of the discovery of the impact crater that doomed the dinosaurs. Nice description of how science works in the real world. A meteor is a bright streak of light in the sky (a "shooting star" or a "falling star") produced by the entry of a small meteoroid into the Earth's atmosphere. If you have a dark clear sky you will probably see a few per hour on an average night; during one of the annual meteor showers you may see as many as 100/hour. Very bright meteors are known as fireballs; if you see one please report it . Meteor showers can be very impressive. Samuel Tay Read More Go to Site

		Near Live Comet Watching System ^Votes:0 This system was designed to allow individuals on the Web to view very recently uploaded images of comet Hale-Bopp. Hopefully, at any given time, someone on the night side of earth will be imaging Hale-Bopp and be able to upload images soon after obtaining them. Sequences such as an image every 5 or 10 minutes for the duration of an observing session would be great for observing changing events and measuring motion! This is what we are hoping for. If you have equipment capable of imaging the comet, you are welcome and encouraged to register as an "Uploader". Click on the "Register to upload images" link to the lower right and fill out the form. It would be greatly appreciated if observatories monitoring the comet would participate too. This system, if successful, could be used by other grou Read More Go to Site

		Photographs of Comet Hale-Bopp and Comet Hyakutake ^Votes:0 Photographs of Comet Hyakutake and Comet Hale-Bopp and (new!) Comet Bradfield (2004) by Terry Acomb New!! Comet Bradfield Photos (April, 2004) Balanced Rock photo at Arches National Park, photo #2 , photo #3 . Two Great Comets in Two Years 1996 and 1997 saw the appearance of two exceptional comets, Comet Hyakutake and Comet Hale-Bopp. Bright naked-eye comets such as these are relatively rare, occurring at an average rate of about 5 percentury over the last 2000 years (see "Great Comets in History" at this website ). Comet Hyakutake (1996) and Comet Hale-Bopp (1997) were thebrightest comets to appear since Comet West in 1976. All of these comets were far brighter than the 1986 apparition of Halley's Comet (a relatively poor apparition for this more famous periodic visitor) . The photographs Read More Go to Site

		PSRD Redirect to new URL ^Votes:0 Planetary Science Research Discoveries We've moved to a new domain. (psrd.hawaii.edu) The PSRD article you are looking for can be found in its new location at: http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Feb97/Hale-Bopp.html You will be redirected automatically in a few seconds; otherwise, just click on the new URL link. Please modify your bookmarks and links accordingly. Thanks. psrd@higp.hawaii.edu FEB 2001 Read More Go to Site

		Shoemaker-Levy 9 ^Votes:0 Investigate Comet SL9 on the Internet Y ou probably know quite a bit about our solar system already. Perhaps you've seen shuttlecraft launches on TV or the movie Apollo 13 and have become interested in the people and spacecraft that have helped us study the Earth and the Moon. Maybe you've read books and magazine articles about the nine planets, the Sun, and the space missions that have gathered information about them. But did you know that one of the best places to find facts, pictures, and movies about the solar system is on the Internet? This activity will help you explore some of the many resources available on the Internet. At the same time, you'll learn about the solar system and about Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which smashed into the planet Jupiter in July 1994. If you're ready, let's Read More Go to Site

		Small Comets ^Votes:0 Small Comets Every few seconds a "snowball" the size of a small house breaks up as it approaches Earth and deposits a large cloud of water vapor in Earth's upper atmosphere. Latest News New Optical Results The Original Discovery Who's Who Your Questions Answered How to Search for Small Comets Publications Polar/VIS Home Page Search Site For More Information The underlying Earth surface images used throughout this site are a subset of the Face of the Earth TM © 1996, ARC Science simulations . Last Updated: Sunday, 17-Sep-06 at 11:19:26 AM This document has been accessed a total of 390,371 times. Read More Go to Site

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		WWW.HALEBOPP.COM ^Votes:0 Welcome! Nov 21, '07 WWW.HALEBOPP.COM FEATURED DIRECTORY: Read More Go to Site

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