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Planet Compare – NASA Solar System Exploration NASA’s real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration Our scientists and far-ranging robots explore the wild frontiers of our solar system
C 1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp) - NASA Solar System Exploration Comet Hale-Bopp (C 1995 O1) was discovered on 23 July 1995 by two independent observers, Alan Hale (Cloudcroft, N M ) and Thomas Bopp (Stanfield, AZ), and is showing potential of putting on a spectacular display as it nears its 1997 perihelion The image above was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, and shows material ejected from the rotating comet in a "pinwheel" pattern
In Depth | C 2012 S1 (ISON) – NASA Solar System Exploration How ISON Got Its Name C 2012 S1 (ISON) bears the name of the night-sky survey program that discovered it, the International Scientific Optical Network ISON is a group of observatories in ten countries which have organized to detect, monitor, and track objects in space The network is managed by the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, part of the Russian Academy of Sciences The official
Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud - NASA Solar System Exploration The Kuiper Belt should not be confused with the Oort Cloud, which is a thousand times more distant In 1950, astronomer Jan Oort proposed that certain comets come from a vast, extremely distant spherical shell of icy bodies surrounding the solar system This giant swarm of objects, now named the Oort Cloud, occupies space at a distance between 5,000 and 100,000 astronomical units No objects
Asteroids, Comets Meteors - NASA Solar System Exploration Our solar system’s small bodies – asteroids, comets, and meteors – pack big surprises These chunks of rock, ice, and metal are leftovers from the formation of our solar system 4 6 billion years ago
In Depth | 2P Encke – NASA Solar System Exploration The Taurids, which peak in October November of each year, are fast meteors (65,000 mph or 104,607 kph) and are known for their fireballs Fireballs are meteors that are as bright or brighter than the planet Venus (seen in the morning or evening skies at around a visual magnitude of -4)