- extensions. The solid, core
structure of a
comet is
known as the nucleus.
Cometary nuclei are
composed of an
amalgamation of rock, dust,
water ice, and frozen...
- be the much
denser of the two,
having tens or
hundreds of
times as many
cometary nuclei as the
outer cloud. The
Hills cloud is
thought to be
necessary to...
- part of a comet,
formerly termed a
dirty snowball or an icy dirtball. A
cometary nucleus is
composed of rock, dust, and
frozen gases. When
heated by the...
-
solar wind: when
highly charged ions fly
through a
cometary atmosphere, they
collide with
cometary atoms and molecules, "ripping off" one or more electrons...
-
WGSBN publishes a
comprehensive guideline for the
naming rules of non-
cometary small Solar System bodies. 1–1000 1,000s 2,000s 3,000s 4,000s 5,000s 6...
-
Cometary knots, also
referred as globules, are
structures observed in
several nearby planetary nebulae (PNe),
including the
Helix Nebula (NGC 7293), the...
- the short-period comet. A dust
layer both
inhibits the
heating of the
cometary ices by the Sun (the dust is
impenetrable by
sunlight and a poor conductor...
-
WGSBN publishes a
comprehensive guideline for the
naming rules of non-
cometary small Solar System bodies. 1–1000 1,000s 2,000s 3,000s 4,000s 5,000s 6...
-
exhibit stripping of
materials to
produce a tail.
These types are
called "
cometary globules" (CG). Thackeray's Globules, a set of Bok
globules in the H II...
- to main list This is a list of 51P/Harrington (3 entries) with all its
cometary fragments listed at JPL's SBDB (see list). back to main list This is a...
