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Comets & Meteors:     more books (103)

Could an Asteroid Hit the Earth?: Asteroids, Comets, Meteors, and More (Stargazers' Guides) by Rosalind Mist, 2005-09-15 The Orbs Around Us: A Series Of Familiar Essays On The Moon And Planets, Meteors And Comets, The Sun And Colored Pairs Of Suns (1902) by Richard A. Proctor, 2010-09-10 Comets, Asteroids, and Meteorites (Voyage Through the Universe) Comets, Meteors, Asteroids, and the Outer Reaches (The New Solar System) by Trudy E. Bell, 2003-08 Asteroids, Comets and Meteors (Exploring the Solar System) by Giles Sparrow, 2002-03-28 Asteroids, Meteors, and Comets (Space!) by Josepha Sherman, 2009-09 Comets and Meteor Showers (True Books: Space) by Paul P. Sipiera, 1997-10 The 50 Best Sights in Astronomy and How to See Them: Observing Eclipses, Bright Comets, Meteor Showers, and Other Celestial Wonders by Fred Schaaf, 2007-07-27 Comets, Asteroids and Meteors (Earth & Space) by Steve Parker, 2009-09-24 Eyes on the Sky - Meteors by P. M. Boekhoff & Stuart A. Kallen, 2002-07-19 Spinning Through Space: Comets and Asteroids by Eva M. Hans, 2001-01-18 The orbs around us: A series of familiar essays on the moon and planets, meteors and comets, the sun and coloured pairs of suns by Richard A Proctor, 1894 The Orbs Around Us: A Series of Familiar Essays on the Moon and Planets, Meteors and Comets, the Sun and Coloured Pairs of Suns [ 1872 ] by Richard A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor, 2009-08-10 Comets and Asteroids (Exploring Space) by Amanda Davis, 1998-08

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61. From Astroids To Comets (and Meteors, Too)
    From Asteroids and meteors to comets. This site is about Asteroids, comets,and meteors. More information can be found in the Links page.  
    http://www.angelfire.com/fl3/mwalling/Index.htm

62. Comets And Meteors
    comets, meteors and Asteroids. comets Currently Visible. C/2001A2 Discoveredon images obtained on 2001 January 15.32 from the LINEAR project.  
    http://winnipeg.rasc.ca/comets/

63. Asteroids, Comets And Meteors
    A guide to the exploration of asteroids, comets, meteors and meteorites. Space scienceexploration of known comets, asteroids, meteorites and impact craters.  
    http://www.eoascientific.com/prototype/newcampus/space/asteroids.html

64. .:: Vallis Alpes : Comets & Meteors ::.
    Most socalled periodic comets, which orbit the Sun in under 200 years, are thoughtto On any clear night, a few meteors are visible each hour as particles of  
    http://vallis-alpes.apsylus.com/comets.html
    
    Extractions: Comets are insubstantial bodies, loosely knit assemblages of frozen gas and dust that loop around the Sun on highly elongated orbits. They return to the inner Solar System at intervals ranging from a few years to many thousands of years, becoming visible to us on Earth as ghostly, glowing apparitions for a few weeks or months before receding back into obscurity. Our Galaxy has two small companion galaxies called the Magellanic Clouds. To the naked eye they appear like detached portions of the When far from the Sun, a comet shines only by reflecting sunlight. At that stage it is small usually no more than a few kilometres across and faint. Approaching the Sun, the comet warms up, turning its icy surface into gas. Under the influence of the Sun's radiance the gases of the comet begin to fluorescence, in similar fashion to the gas in a neon tube, thereby considerably increasing the comet's brightness. Gas and dust released from the warming comet produce a halo or coma 100,000 km or so in diameter. At the centre of the coma is the nucleus, the only solid part of the comet, consisting of a "dirty snowball" of ice, dust and perhaps some rock. In a large comet the nucleus may be a few tens of kilometres across, but most are only a kilometre or so wide. Well over a thousand million comet nuclei would be needed to equal the mass of the Earth. Not all comets develop tails, but many do. One part of the tail consists of gas blown away from th comet's head by the solar wind of atomic articles streaming from the Sun. The other part of the tail is made up of dust particles liberated from the head by the evaporating gases. Comet tails always point away from the Sun. A comet's tail can extend for 100 million km or so, further than the distance from the Earth to the Sun, as did the gas and dust tails of Comet Hale-Bopp in 1997. Yet, for all its glorious appearance, the tail is less dense than a laboratory vacuum stars shine through it undimmed. The tail of a comet gives it the appearance of speeding across the sky, but actually its movement against the stars is barely noticeable during the course of a night.

65. Comets & Meteors - Astronomy At BellaOnline
    comets meteors. The IkeyaZhang Comet Visible for the first few months of2002, this comet will then leave us for over 300 years before returning.  
    http://www.bellaonline.com/subjects/1415.asp

66. Comets And Meteors, Carnegie Library Of Pittsburgh Resource Guide
    Web resources on comets and meteors for elementary and secondary school students. cometsand meteors. General Sites Leonid Meteor Shower HaleBopp Hyakutake  
    http://www.carnegielibrary.org/subject/homework/comets.html

67. Observing Comets, Asteroids, Meteors, And The Zodiacal Light - Cambridge Univers
    Observing comets, Asteroids, meteors, and the Zodiacal Light. Stephen J. Edberg,David H. Levy. When is it best to hunt for comets and meteors and whereabouts?  
    http://books.cambridge.org/0521420032.htm
    
    Extractions: For updates on new titles in: In stock ‘I liked this volume very much and thoroughly enjoyed reading it … a valuable addition to the literature and would be a great help and encouragement to any observer thinking of taking up any of these studies.’Michael Hendrie, Journal of the British Astronomical Association ‘This book is a useful introduction to the lesser bodies of our Solar System …’Astronomy Now ‘ … the meat of this book is its practical content, which has the feel of people who really know what they are talking about...though they start simple, they take you as far as you could want to go, including the use of the CCD detectors … whatever your day job, if you are interested in astronomy you can start simple and work your way up to professional standard. This is an excellent place to start on that road.’New Scientist ‘For me, the best part is David Levy’s account of comet-hunting. A successful hunter himself, Levy has many tips to share.’The Observatory

68. Fire In The Sky - Cambridge University Press
    Art History Architecture. Fire in the Sky. comets and meteors, the Decisive Centuries,in British Art and Science. Roberta JM Olson, Jay M. Pasachoff. £60.00.  
    http://books.cambridge.org/0521630606.htm
    
    Extractions: For updates on new titles in: Comets and Meteors, the Decisive Centuries, in British Art and Science Paperback In stock Comets and meteors are spectacular and awe-inspiring natural phenomena, which are among nature’s most compelling icons. Since the beginning of recorded time, they have mesmerized people, not least among them artists and astronomers. Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries produced a larger number and greater variety of representations of comets and meteors than any other country. The development of new technologies, and the burgeoning interest of the general public in science and art, dovetailed with the inherent British interest in nature and a strong literary tradition of comet and meteor symbolism. This beautifully illustrated book examines the link between these works and the achievements of British science in the wake of Newton and Halley. This book will be stimulating to anyone interested in the art or astronomy of comets. ‘… an intriguing book … it is beautifully and profusely illustrated … As a text, this book is not only eminently readable, erudite and full of insight, but also skilfully weaves together the conversion of comets from mere celestial wanderers to objects of considerable astrophysical interest, the development of the public’s interest in comets, and the advances in art as paintings and prints eventually competed with chromolithographs and photographs. The authors and publishers must be congratulated on bringing this fascinating symbiosis between science, politics and art to the attention of a wider public.’David Hughes, New Scientist

69. Comets & Meteors
    Images of comets and meteors. Capturing good images of comets andmeteors can range from very easy to very difficult. For the easy  
    http://rao.150m.com/comets_index.html

70. Comets, Quasars, Meteors
    comets, Quasars, meteors The following questions were answered by astronomerDr. Cathy Imhoff of the Space Telescope Science Institute.  
    http://teacher.scholastic.com/researchtools/articlearchives/space/comequ.htm
    
    Extractions: We think that comets are sort of "cosmic leftovers" from the formation of our solar system. There seems to be millions of them far, far out in our solar system, far beyond the orbit of Pluto. They are made up of ice, rock, and dust. They are much smaller than they look. The comet itself may only be a mile across but the tail can be millions of miles long (but it's just thin gas and dust). Why does a comet have a tail behind it? You may be surprised that meteors hit the earth all the time! The vast majority are very small and burn up when they hit the earth's atmosphere. A few make it through and hit the ground or fall into the ocean. I have one, about the size of a pebble, in my rock collection. It is very rare for a meteor big enough to do any damage to hit the earth. Have you ever heard of the Meteor Crater in Arizona? I have visited it. It's about a mile across and occurred about 25,000 years ago. Fortunately these days, astronomers are tracking all the larger objects and keeping track of them in orbit. Hopefully if one if them looks like it might hit the earth, we can do something about it. What is the difference between a meteor shower and a meteor storm?

71. Asteroid, Comet And Meteor Facts
    Rock and ice are the main ingredients of asteroids, comets and meteors. Terms. Hereare some basic terms used for describing asteroids, comets and meteors.  
    http://www.kidscosmos.org/kid-stuff/asteroid-facts.html
    
    Extractions: Asteroid, Comet and Meteor Facts Flying Space Rocks Rock and ice are the main ingredients of asteroids, comets and meteors. These flying rocks orbit the sun and sometimes come close enough to Earth to see. When you are ready, click back to return to the Student Center or click below to explore again. The Asteroid Gaspra. Asteroids are made of rocky and/or iron-nickel material and most are found in an orbit between Mars and Jupiter. Most are pitted with impact craters and dust left from collisions with other objects in the solar system. Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them as in the picture at right, the Asteroid Ida and its moon Dactyl. A group of asteroids orbit the sun called Near-Earth Asteroids because they are somewhat close to the Earth and occasionally may cross Earth's orbit. Could any hit the Earth? Click here for more about

72. OCA Library - Books: Planetary Science, Solar System, Comets & Meteors
    make your selection Books Planetary science, solar system, comets meteors. Title, Year Published, Author(s). 924 Elementary Problems  
    http://www.ocastronomers.org/resources/library/books.asp?mode=byCategory&categor

73. Comets & Meteors
    comets meteors. Follow Ups Post In Reply to comets,meteors,meteoritesposted by Rob marwick on May 08, 2002 at 184147 i want to  
    http://meteors.com/cgibin/cometlinear/wwwboard/messages/552.html

74. Re: Asteroids, Comets And Meteors
    Re asteroids, comets and meteors. Follow Ups Post Followup NearEarth.net Comet, meteors, Asteroid Discussion FAQ  
    http://meteors.com/cgibin/cometlinear/wwwboard/messages/525.html
    
    Extractions: I think the same goes for asteroids, a lot of them are now discovered by robotic telescopes like Linear. Other contributors of discoveries are NEAT/JPL, LONEOS, Catalina Sky Survey and Spacewatch and so on. Following up on some individual characteristics about these discoveries will give them a bit of a separate profile. : : This site was conceived mid 2000, as far as I know, around the time of comet 1999 Linear S4, in order to give some individuality to things Linear and help other people enjoy them. Comets 2001 Linear A2, 2000 Linear WM1 are other examples. : I think the same goes for asteroids, a lot of them are now discovered by robotic telescopes like Linear. Other contributors of discoveries are NEAT/JPL, LONEOS, Catalina Sky Survey and Spacewatch and so on. Following up on some individual characteristics about these discoveries will give them a bit of a separate profile. : Some terrific links were also given in the run up to the Leonids the year before last, for the observation and reporting of meteors and fireballs. : Is that a reasonable purpose statement? : Clear skies, : Case. : : : : : Were do you guys come up with this stuff for this web site e-mail me if you come up with anything useful

75. (meteorobs) Small Comets And Meteors
    PrevNextIndexThread (meteorobs) Small comets and meteors. To meteorobslist meteorobs@latrade.com ; Subject (meteorobs) Small comets and meteors;  
    http://www.meteorobs.org/maillist/msg04756.html
    
    Extractions: [Prev] [Next] [Index] [Thread] To meteorobs@latrade.com Subject : (meteorobs) Small comets and meteors From 72632.1427@compuserve.com Date : Wed, 4 Jun 1997 16:43:08 -0400 Reply-To meteorobs@latrade.com Sender : owner-meteorobs Prev: Re: (meteorobs) re: Meteor talk on IRC Next: (meteorobs) Fwd: Internet Relay Chat Index(es): Main Thread

76. Re: (meteorobs) Small Comets And Meteors
    Re (meteorobs) Small comets and meteors. To INTERNETmeteorobs@latrade.com meteorobs@latrade.com ; Subject Re (meteorobs) Small comets and meteors;  
    http://www.meteorobs.org/maillist/msg04776.html
    
    Extractions: [Prev] [Next] [Index] [Thread] Friday June 6,1997 Here is a little more meteor related info gleaned from Dr. Louis Frank's THE BIG SPLASH. I am up to page 100 or so and hope to report more as I read further. In chapter 10 Dr. Frank writes about Ernst Opik and the Table of Meteor Luminosities and a phenomenon known as "Opik's Dustballs". Page 83: "A small comet of water-snow impregnated with minor amounts of cosmic dust should emulate the visual signature of these dustballs."...."Dustballs start out like a very big bright rock, but travel only a short distance, then snuff out." page 82 He gets slightly into "nebulous meteors" on page 85. "Nebulous meteors are generally thought to be loose clumps of fine debris of cometary origin. But unfortunately there is no organized information on these observations. There is nothing that allows us to document what is happening here. So I cannot say with any certainty that nebulous meteors have any bearing on the topic of small comets." More later, Tom Ashcraft Prev: Re: (meteorobs) mIRC Next: (meteorobs) Radiant Rising, No. 2, June 1997

77. Asteroids, Comets And Meteors, Vol. 3
    Return to Coronet Books main page. Asteroids, comets and meteors,Vol. 3 Proceedings of a Meeting Held at Astronomical Observatory  
    http://www.coronetbooks.com/books/aste7774.html

78. G.E.T. : Comets & Meteors Lesson
    Public Library Use) or $25 (School Use) to GET, PO Box 658, ThreeLakes, WI 545620658. comets meteors Updated 03/10/99. Outline.  
    http://www.kamsc.org/quest/get/comles.html
    
    Extractions: Updated Purpose (O) At the conclusion of this lesson you will know what comets are, where they come from and how they relate to meteor showers. You will understand the materials of which they are composed, and how they behave. You will have built a file of information on currently visible comets and upcoming meteor showers in preparation for actually getting out and seeing them. Materials (O) Preparation (O) Before you begin your exploration of sites on the WWW you should do the following: P-01. Use an encyclopedia to gain an understanding of telescope terminology that you will encounter:

79. InfoZone Findit -
    Science Space ASTEROIDS, comets meteors. Learn about Asteroids,Learn about comets, Learn about meteors. Halley's Comet, infoZone  
    http://infozone.imcpl.org/cgi-bin/izone.pl?7_8_6 3

80. Comets Meteors
    Return to my Astrophotography Gallery main index or my home page. LeonidMeteor shower of November 2001. These pictures were captured  
    http://www.i2.i-2000.com/~bradley/comets_&_meteors.htm

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