- 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...
- 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...
-
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...
- PMID 29349297. Wickramasinghe,
Chandra (2011). "Bacterial
morphologies supporting cometary panspermia: a reappraisal".
International Journal of Astrobiology. 10 (1):...
-
direction of the
solar wind. In this bow shock,
large concentrations of
cometary ions (called "pick-up ions")
congregate and act to "load" the
solar magnetic...
-
Cometary knots, also
referred as globules, are
structures observed in
several nearby planetary nebulae (PNe),
including the
Helix Nebula (NGC 7293), the...
- both a
minor planet and a comet, and is
accordingly also
known by the
cometary designation 95P/Chiron. More recently, a
series of
occultation events through...
