Comet Hyakutake, Tim Puckett, February 26, 1996)

COMET NEWS

• Scientists Measure How Deep 'Deep Impact' Was, With X-Rays (Pennsylvania State University - July 8, 2005)
• UK Infrared Telescope First to Detect Flare from Deep Impact (United Kingdom Infrared Telescope in Hawaii - July 6, 2005)
• Deep Impact Kicks Off Fourth of July with Deep Space Fireworks (NASA - July 4, 2005)
• NASA's Deep Impact Generates Its Own Spectacular Photo Flash (NASA - July 4, 2005)
• Dust and Gas from Comet Tempel 1 Seen by Rosetta (ESA - July 4, 2005)
• Rosetta Camera View of Tempel 1 Brightness (ESA - July 4, 2005)
• Hubble Captures Deep Impact's Collision with Comet (Hubble Space Telescope - July 4, 2005)
• XMM-Newton Detects Water on Comet Tempel 1 (ESA - July 4, 2005)
• Subaru Telescope Observes Comet Impact (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan - July 4, 2005)
• NASA Swift Satellite Offers a Different View of the Great Comet Collision (Pennsylvania State University - July 4, 2005)
• Deep Impact Observes Huge Comet Outburst (University of Maryland - June 28, 2005) Deep Impact Detects Comet Nucleus (University of Maryland - June 21, 2005)
• Join in the Search for SOHO's 1,000th Comet (NASA - January 25, 2005
• Hale-Bopp Co-Discovers Plans Event to Mark 10-Year Anniversary of Comet Discovery (Alan Hale - January 27, 2005)
• Deep Impact Launched and Flying Toward Date With a Comet (NASA - January 12, 2005)
• ESO's Very Large Telescope Obtains Unique Spectrum of a Meteor (European Southern Observatory - July 30, 2004)
• NASA Unveils Anatomy Of A Comet (NASA - June 15, 2004)
• Rosetta's Scientific 'First' - Observation of Comet C/2002 T7 (LINEAR) (European Space Agency - May 26, 2004)
• Close-up Image of Comet NEAT From Kitt Peak Observatory (National Optical Astronomy Observatory - May 25, 2004)
• The Double Comet Show of 2004 (Sky & Telescope - May 5, 2004)
• Scientist from University of Hawaii Helps NASA Get Photos of Comet Wild 2 (Honolulu Star Bulletin - April 6, 2004)
• Here Comes a 'NEAT' Comet - C/2001 Q4 (NEAT) (space.com - March 10, 2004)
• Stardust Surprise (NASA Science News - January 16, 2004)
• Stardust Makes Great Catch...Heads for Touchdown (NASA - January 2, 2004)
• Stardust Pinpoints Where the Wild Thing Is (JPL - December 1, 2003)
• The 2003 Leonid Meteor Shower (NASA Science News - October 10, 2003)
• Optical Detection of Anomalous Nitrogen in Comets (ESO - September 12, 2003)
• Hubble Finds Farthest, Faintest Solar System Objects Beyond Neptune (Space Telescope Science Institute - September 6, 2003)
• New Image of Comet Halley in the Cold (ESO - September 1, 2003)
• View of Comets As Pristine Relics Of Solar System Formation Evolves (Southwest Research Institute - August 6, 2003)
• Catching A Comet's Tail In The Earth's Upper Atmosphere (Johnson Space Center - July 10, 2003)
• 2003 Comet Awards Announced (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics - July 7, 2003)
• Headless Comets Survive Plunge Through Sun's Atmosphere (Goddard Space Flight Center - June 10, 2003)
• Astrophysicists Simulate Comet X-Ray Emissions In Laboratory (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - June 5, 2003)
• A Rare Meteor Shower (NASA Science News - February 28, 2003)
• Amazing Live Images: Sungrazing Comet Possibly Hit by Solar Eruption (space.com - February 18, 2003)
• Surf The Web To See The Sun-Dancing Comet (European Space Agency - February 12, 2003)
• Did a Comet Swarm Kill the Dinosaurs? (Sky & Telescope - September 13, 2002)
• Comets Break Up Far And Near (NASA - September 5, 2002)
• New Comet Hoenig (Sky & Telescope - August 2, 2002)
• Summer Meteor Shower (Perseids) (NASA Science News - July 19, 2002)
• SwRI Researchers Ask: Where Have All The Comets Gone? (Southwest Reseach Institute - June 20, 2002)
• Solving the Case of the Missing Comets (space.com - June 20, 2002)
• Europa Has Right Stuff (SETI Institute - May 21, 2002)
• The Truth about the 2002 Leonid Meteor Storm (NASA Science News - May 10, 2002)
• Discover A Comet While On The Internet With SOHO (NASA - April 18, 2002)
• In SOHO's Pictures, Watch A Comet Passing Near The Sun (European Space Agency - April 17, 2002)
• Comet Hunter Carolyn Shoemaker To Speak At Cornell On April 21 (Cornell University - April 11, 2002)
• Comet Discoverer Hyakutake Dies At 51 (Kyodo News - April 11, 2002)
• Deep Space 1 Finds Comet Borrelly Has Hot, Dry Surface (Jet Propulsion Laboratory - April 5, 2002)
• Second New Comet, Utsunomiya, May Be Visible in Late April (space.com - April 3, 2002)
• Last Chance To See Comet Ikeya-Zhang (Jet Propulsion Laboratory - March 29, 2002)
• How To See Comet Ikeya-ZhangHarvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (March 22, 2002)
• The Comet Hunter (Kaoru Ikeya) (The Associated Press - March 21, 2002)
• Getting to Know Comet Borrelly (astronomy.com - March 16, 2002)
• Amateur Astronomer Discovers New Comet (C/2002 E2 Snyder-Murakami) (Sierra Vista Herald - March 14, 2002)
• Viewer's Guide to New Comet Ikeya-Zhang (space.com - March 8, 2002)
• ESO's Comet Wirtanen Images Help ESA's Rosetta Spacecraft Prepare to Ride on a Cosmic Bullet (ESA/ESO - February 26, 2002)
• Critical Thermal Tests Begin For Rosetta Comet Chaser (European Space Agency - February 21, 2002)
• Newly Spotted Comet Will Soon Grace Night Skies (Comet C/2002 C1 - Ikeya-Zhang) (space.com - February 19, 2002)
• CONTOUR Spacecraft Shipped to Goddard for Prelaunch Testing (Applied Physics Laboratory - January 29, 2002)
• UA Scientists Begin Field Work on Chicxulub Drilling Project (University of Arizona - January 14, 2002)
• SOHO's Private View Of A Sunbathing Comet (ESA - January 8, 2002)
• Leonids Cause Visible Lunar Explosions (Popular Mechanics - January 5, 2002)
• CONTOUR Spacecraft Nears Completion At Applied Physics Lab (Johns Hopkins University - January 4, 2002)
• Spacecraft Swansong: DS1's Surprising, Puzzling Final Comet Encounter (space.com - January 2, 2002)
• Kevlar vs. Comets: Bullet- Proof Craft to Get Closest Comet Views Ever (CONTOUR) (space.com - December 26, 2001)
• NASA Bids Farewell To The Successfull Deep Space 1 Mission (NASA - December 17, 2001)
• Deep Space 1 Shows Comet Sense (Nature Science Update - December 14, 2001)
• Meteor High-Speed Imaging (Ames Research Center - December 11, 2001)
• Carolyn Shoemaker: Comet Hunter (Universe Today - December 11, 2001)
• Deep Space 1 Says Farewell (JPL Universe - December 7, 2001)
• Comet Borrelly Rocks and Rolls In Simple Movie (Jet Propulsion Laboratory - November 29, 2001)
• Tool For First Comet Orbiter Will Examine Escaping Gases (Jet Propulsion Laboratory - November 19, 2001)
• Across The Globe And Around The Clock, NASA Engineers To Track And Share Leonids Data (Marshall Space Flight Center - November 13, 2001)
• Leonid Meteor Storm! When, Where and How to Watch (space.com - November 6, 2001)
• First Estimate of the Formation Temperature of Ammonia Ice in a Comet (National Astronomical Observatory Of Japan - November 1, 2001)
• Deep Space 1 Captures Best-Ever View Of Comet's Core (Jet Propulsion Laboratory - September 25, 2001)
• Comet Results Briefing Set For September 25 (NASA - September 24, 2001)
• Deep Space 1 Successfully Flies By Comet Borrelly (Jet Propulsion Laboratory - September 22, 2001)
• Deep Space 1 Attempts To Earn Extra Credit At Comet (JPL - September 18, 2001)
• The Continuing Adventures of Deep Space 1 (NASA Science News - September 18, 2001)
• Deep Space 1 Probe Plans Daring Comet Flyby (space.com - September 16, 2001)
• FUSE Sees Solar System Under Construction (Goddard Space Flight Center - August 15, 2001)
• Signs of Comets Spotted Around Another Star (space.com - August 15, 2001)
• Anticipating the Perseids (NASA Science News - July 31, 2001)
• IAU Colloquium 186: Cometary Science After Hale-Bopp
• Rosetta's CONSERT Heads For A Real Cool Venue (ESA - July 5, 2001)
• Near-Earth Asteroid Is Two Chunks In One (JPL - May 30, 2001)
• Comet LINEAR (C/2001 A2) Splits Further (ESO - May 18, 2001)
• In Coming Apart, Comet LINEAR Exposes Its Deepest Secrets (NASA - May 17, 2001)
• Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, Even For A Comet (JPL - May 17, 2001)
• Comet Cracks Under Pressure After Rapid Brightening (space.com - May 3, 2001)
• Comet McNaught-Hartley Provides A Wealth Of New X-Ray Data (ESA - March 21, 2001)
• Deep Space 1 Loads Up For Trek To Comet (JPL - March 20, 2001)
• A Night To Remember: The Giotto Flyby Of Halley's Comet (ESA - March 14, 2001)
• La Silla Telescope Views Comet Hale-Bopp at 2 Billion Kilometers (ESO - March 6, 2001)
• New Analysis Of Meteorite Shows Key Ingredients For Life On Earth May Have Been Delivered By Comets (Scripps Institution of Oceanography - February 27, 2001)
• Naked-Eye Comet Possible for Christmas 2001 (space.com - February 26, 2001)
• SOHO Analyses A Kamikaze Comet (ESA - February 23, 2001)
• Asteroid Or Comet Triggered Largest Mass Extinction 250 Million Years Ago (NASA/University Of Washington - February 22, 2001)
• Comet Collisions: Only The Strong Survived? (JPL - January 31, 2001)
  
• Look To Leonids For Stunning Sky (JPL - November 16, 2000)
  
• North America's East Coast May Offer Best View Of Leonids Meteor Shower (Marshall Space Flight Center - November 8, 2000)
  
• Lunar Leonids 2000 (NASA Science News - October 26, 2000)
  
• Rash of Red Asteroids Puzzles Researchers (space.com - October 25, 2000)
  
• Astronomers Discover Minor Planet Between Neptune and Pluto (2000 EB173) (USA Today - October 24, 2000)
  
• Tagish Lake Meteorite May Be Most Primitive Solar System Material Ever Studied (University Of Calgary - October 12, 2000)
  
• Cosmic Time Capsule: Frozen Yukon Meteorite Found (space.com - October 12, 2000)
  
• The Moonlit Leonids 2000 (NASA - October 10, 2000)
  
• Tree Rings Challenge History (BBC News - September 8, 2000)
  
• Comet Champion of the Solar System (NASA Science News - August 28, 2000)
  
• Hot X-Rays From A Cold Comet (NASA Science Ne ws - August 23, 2000)
  
• Comet Linear Breakup Is Boon to Scientists (space.com - August 11, 2000)
  
• Ice Worlds Beyond Neptune Yield Clues To History Of The Solar System (Southwest Research Institute - August 11, 2000)
  
• European Southern Observatory Observes Comet LINEAR's 'Shower' (ESO - August 8, 2000)
  
• Hubble Discovers Missing Pieces Of Comet LINEAR (Space Telescope Science Institute - August 7, 2000)
  
• Of Comets and Meteors (Fred Whipple - August 4, 2000)
  
• Comet LINEAR: Going, Going.... But Not Quite Gone (The Isaac Newston Group Of Telescopes - August 4, 2000)
  
• Comet LINEAR Continues To Disintegrate (NASA Science News - July 31, 2000)
  
• The Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope Observes The Death Of Comet LINEAR (Isacc Newton Group Of Telescopes - July 28, 2000)
  
• NASA's Two Great Observatories Keep Their 'Eyes' On Comet LINEAR (NASA - July 27, 2000)
  
• Space Rescue Makes Close Comet Encounter Possible (JPL - July 27, 2000)
  
• Dust, Rocks, Meteorites And Other Debris (SpaceDaily - July 25, 2000)
  
• Time Travel Through A Trail Of Comet Dust (Goddard Space Flight Center - July 19, 2000)
  
• Comet Borrelly or Bust (NASA Science News - July 11, 2000)
  
• Some Comets Like it Hot (NASA Science News - July 7, 2000)
  
• Deep Space 1 Restarts Ion Engine (SpaceViews - July 5, 2000)
  
• Rosetta And Giotto Bridget The Generation Gap (ESA - July 3, 2000)
  
• Call for CCD Observations of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 (Stephanie McLaughlin - June 30, 2000)
  
• Comet 1999 S4 LINEAR Bright Enough For Binoculars (space.com - June 23, 2000)
  
• Argon Find Bodes Well For Rosetta's Noble Mission (ESA - June 14, 2000)
  
• Water-Bearing Salt Crystals Come From Dawn Of Solar System (American Association for the Advancement of Science - June 8, 2000)
  
• Astronomers Report The First Detection Of A Noble Gas In A Comet (Southwest Research Institute - June 5, 2000)
  
• Comet Hale-Bopp May Have Formed Near Nept une (space.com - June 5, 2000)
  
• Tagish Lake Meteorite: Largest Meteorite Find In Canadian History (University Of Calgary - May 31, 2000)
  
• We Are Stardust (New Scientist - May 13, 2000)
  
• Ulysses Spacecraft Meets A Comet (JPL - April 5, 2000)
  
• Researchers Discover Extraterrestrial Gases In Buckyballs (Ames Research Center/University Of Hawaii - March 20, 2000)
  
• Yukon Meteorite May Provide 'New Window Into The Universe' (NASA - March 16, 2000)
  
• NASA Renames NEAR Spacecraft For Planetary Science Pioneer Gene Shoemaker (NASA - March 14, 2000)
  
• Sunlight Keeps Star Dust at Bay (ESA - December 17, 1999)
  
• Comet Hale-Bopp May Have A Satellite (explorezone.com - November 23, 1999)
  
• Fiery End For Dinosaurs? (BBC News - November 18, 1999)
  
• Most Distant Solar System Object Detected (BBC News - November 9, 1999)
  
• A Surprise November Meteor Shower? (Marshall Space Flight Center - November 5, 1999)
  
• Near-Live Leonid Watching System (NASA - November 1999)
  
• Leonids On The Moon (Marshall Space Flight Center - November 3, 1999)
  
• Creating the Model Comet (space.com - November 1, 1999)
  
• NASA Meteor Balloon Rises Again (Marshall Space Flight Center - November 1, 1999)
  
• Air Force Fears Satellite Damage During Upcoming Meteor Showers (Reuters - November 1, 1999)
  
• Leonids In The Crystal Ball (Marshall Space Flight Center - October 27, 1999)
  
• 'Glowworms In Sky' Studied At Starfire Optical Range (Air Force News Service - October 26, 1999)
  
• A Dusty Ring May Be the Tell-Tale Mark of an Emerging Planetary System (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics - October 20, 1999)
  
• Chemistry Of Comet Hale-Bopp May Offer Clues About Early Solar System (University of Massachusetts-Amherst - October 13, 1999)
  
• New Comet May Put on a Show Next Year (SpaceViews - October 13, 1999)
  
• No Water Ice Detected From Lunar Prospector Impact (NASA - October 13, 1999)
  
• Puzzle Of Cometary Orbits Hints At Large Undiscovered Object (Royal Astronomical Society - October 7, 1999)
  
• Comet And Asteroid Hunters' Discovery Streak Continues (Albuquerque Journal - October 6, 1999)
  
• Possible Pluto Debris Spotted (SpaceDaily - October 6, 1999)
  
• World's Largest Impact Found In South Africa (SpaceDaily - October 5, 1999)
  
• Companion To Comet Grigg-Skjellerup Discovered Using Giotto Data? (ESA - September 28, 1999)
  
• Harvest Of The Heavens Starts With A Sludgeball On Earth (Sydney Morning Herald - September 24, 1999)
  
• Forecast Calls for Exciting Leonids Meteor Shower (space.com - September 17, 1999)
  
• A Violent Blast Of Radiation Spawned The Planets (New Scientist - September 8, 1999)
  
• The House Of Comets (explorezone.com - September, 1999)
  
• Water Found In Second Meteorite (CNN - September 7, 1999)
  
• Fine Leonid Meteor Displays Predicted Through To 2002 (Royal Astronomical Society - August 30, 1999)
  
• Water Of The Stars (space.com - August 26, 1999)
  
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey Discovers its First Comet (Sloan Digital Sky Survey - August 13, 1999)
  
• Earth Battered Through History By Comets (San Jose Mercury News - August 17, 1999)
  
• Here Come The Perseids! (Marshall Space Flight Center - August 9, 1999)
  
• Perseids Live! Balloon Flight Planned (Marshall Space Flight Center - August 6, 1999)
  
• At Age 92, Astronomer Fred Whipple Is Joining CONTOUR To Explore Three Comets In 2002 (Cornell University - July 26, 1999)
  
• The Leonid Meteor Outburst of 1997 (Marshall Space Flight Center - July 16, 1999)
  
• Potential Hazard Of Earth-Asteroid Collisions To Be Discussed At Cornell Space Conference (Cornell University - July 14, 1999)
  
• 'Deep Impact' To Excavate And Study A Comet's Nucleus Wins NASA Approval (University Of Maryland - July 7, 1999)
  
• JPL's New Deep Impact Comet Mission OK'd By NASA (JPL - July 7, 1999)
  
• 'Deep Impact' In Chesapeake Bay (USGS - July 6, 1999)
  
• NASA Selects Missions To Mercury And A Comet's Interior As Next Discovery Flights (NASA - July 7, 1999)
  
• Return To Tunguska (BBC News - June 28, 1999)
  
• Leonids On The Horizon (Marshall Space Flight Center - June 22, 1999)
  
• SOHO Glimpses Far Side Of The Sun, Looks At Comet Hale-Bopp's Shadow (European Space Agency - June 22, 1999)
  
• Comet Hale-Bopp Fails Emission Tests But Reveals Comet Origin (Goddard Space Flight Center - June 16, 1999)
  
• Astronomer Helps Pinpoint Birth/History of Hale-Bopp (University Of North Dakota - June 16, 1999)
  
• Jupiter's Moon Ganymede Surrounded By An Impact-Generated Dust Cloud (Max Planck Institute of Nuclear Physics - June 2, 1999)
  
• Lunar Sodium Tail Discovered (Boston University - June 2, 1999)
  
• Leonid Conference Participants Ask: "Were We Lucky Last Year?" (Aerospace Corporation - May 16, 1999)
  
• Earth's Water Probably Didn't Come From Comets (Caltech - March 18, 1999)
  
• Comets, Like Cars, Leave Carbon Monoxide In Their Wake (Arizona State University - February 18, 1999)
  
• Leonid Sample Return Payload Recovered (Marshall Space Flight Center - November 23, 1998)
  
• High School Students Discover New Kuiper Belt Object (National Science Foundation - November 20, 1998)
  
• First Rotation Period Of A Kuiper Belt Object Measured (ESO - November 5, 1998)
  
• New Observations Of Comet Hale-Bopp From La Silla (ESO - October 22, 1998)
  
• ESO Image Of Newly Discovered Comet C/1998 P1 Available (European Southern Observatory (August 12, 1998)
  
• Cometary Impact With Earth Unlikely In The Next 500,000 Years (Ohio State University - July 31, 1998)
  
• A new image of Comet Wild-2 taken by the European Southern Observatory is now available.
  
• New Galileo Images Of Ganymede Available (JPL - July 15, 1998)
  
• NASA Establishes Near-Earth Object Program Office At JPL (NASA - July 14, 1998)
  
• Astronomers Discover A Nearby Star System Just Like Our Own Solar System (Joint Astronomy Center - July 8, 1998)
  
• Astronomers Find Comets Around Two Nearby Stars (UC Berkeley - June 11, 1998)
  
• Astronomers Look At Whether Comet Chemistry Can Reveal Clues About The Early Solar System (University of Massachusetts-Amherst - June 10, 1998)
  
• New Deep Space 1 Trajectory Includes Asteroid Flyby (JPL - June 5, 1998)
  
• SOHO Spacecraft Sees Two Comets Plunge Into Sun (NASA - June 3, 1998)
  
• Ancient Myths And Tree Rings Point To Giant Comet's Visit To Earth (Particle Physics & Astronomy Research Council - May 20, 1998)
  
• Interplanetary Dust May Cause Climate Change, Gradual Extinction (University of Florida - May 7, 1998)
  
• Why Study Comets? (Don Yeomans - April 1998)
  
• UA Catalina Sky Survey To Make Speedy Searches For Faint Near-Earth Asteroid And Comets (University Of Arizona - May 4, 1998)
  
• UK Astronomers Find Two New Kuiper Belt Objects (Royal Astronomy Society - March 27, 1998)
  
• Hubble Pictures From Study of Comet Hyakutake Released University of Michigan - March 27, 1998)
  
• Tiny Teeth Shed Light on Ancient Comets (US Department Of The Interior - March 20, 1998)
  
• Crater Chain On Two Continents Points To Impact From Fragmented Comet (University of Chicago - March 13, 1998)
  
• Comet Hale-Bopp Holds Clues to Creation of Comet Ices (University of Massachusetts-Amherst - March 12, 1998)
  
• More Evidence Points To Impact As Dinosaur Killer (JPL - March 12, 1998)
  
• Los Alamos to ride on NASA Genesis Mission
  
• Genesis, CONTOUR Selected As Next Discovery Program Flights (NASA - October 20, 1997)
  
• Detection of Acetylene in Comet Hyakutake
  
• Comets May Have Introduced Interstellar Chemicals to Earth
  
• Chemical Measurements of Comet Hyakutake Suggest a New Class of Comets
  
• First Image of Extreme-Ultraviolet Emission from a Comet: Another 'First' for Comet Hyakutake
  
• SOHO Images Comet Hyakutake's Close Encounter with the Sun
  
• Radio Telescope Detects Molecular Emission from Comet Hyakutake
  
• Latest Sensors Bring New Asteroids and a Comet into Focus
  
• Sudbury Buckyballs Born in Space, Survive Comet Impact
  
• Radar Telescope Observes Nucleus of Comet Hyakutake
  
• Hyakutake, The Great Comet of 96