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Comet Wild 2 image from Stardust navigation camera - Comets Information ... Each comet has only a tiny solid part, called a nucleus, often no bigger than a few kilometers across. The nucleus contains icy chunks and frozen gases with bits of embedded rock and dust. ... Comet Wild 2 image from Stardust - Comets Information...
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space.about.com/od/solarsystem/a/cometsinfo.htm
space.about.com/od/solarsystem/a/cometsinfo.htm
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Comet structures are diverse and very dynamic, but they all develop a surrounding cloud of diffuse material, called a coma, that usually grows in size and brightness as the comet approaches the Sun. Usually a small, bright nucleus (less than 10 km in diameter) is visible in the middle of the coma.
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www.solarviews.com/eng/comet.htm
www.solarviews.com/eng/comet.htm
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More information ... Comets are mostly made up of ice and dust, with a few chunks of rock and possibly some organic (carbon) compounds. The ices that make the bulk of a comet include water ice, dry ice (solid carbon dioxide), frozen ammonia, solid methane and several ... Online Stuff > Star Lab > Comet Information...
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www.questacon.edu.au/starlab/comet_info.html
www.questacon.edu.au/starlab/comet_info.html
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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, ... Comet information from the International Comet Quarterly...
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www.nineplanets.org/comets.html
www.nineplanets.org/comets.html
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A cometary "string-of-pearls" will fly past Earth in May 2006 giving astronomers a fantastic view of a dying comet. ... We're about to get a much closer look. In May 2006 the fragments are going to fly past Earth closer than any comet has come in more than twenty years. ... + Freedom of Information Act; + Budgets,
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science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/24mar_73p.htm
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The image shown is a view of the nucleus of Comet Halley taken by the Giotto spacecraft. Below is a table of information on selected comets, and at the bottom of the page are comments on the comets.
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nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/cometfact.html
nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/cometfact.html
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Comet Composer: Mathilde de Rothschild Albums with Complete Performances of the Work Title Date Family ... What can a comet do? ... Why there is comet?
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www.answers.com/topic/comet-miscellaneous-classical-wor...
www.answers.com/topic/comet-miscellaneous-classical-work
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Current & Future Comets | Currently Visible Comets | Memorable Comets of the Past ; Catalog of Periodic Comets | Sungrazing Comets | Unconfirmed Comets ; Orbits (Kronk) | Orbits (Kinoshita) | Comet Links ; Cometography (the book series)
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-86 (87 BC): The oldest source of information for this comet is the Babylonian cuneiform tablet designated BM 41018. During the early 1980s, Hermann Hunger identified a fragment of text that referred to a comet, and, in 1985, F. R. Stephenson, K. K. C. Yau, and Hunger were able to use additional astronomical references...
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cometography.com/pcomets/001p.html
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