Sentences with phrase «other comets»

Comet 67P is obviously different from other comets visited so far.

Like other comets of its type, PANSTARRS is thought to have originated in the Oort Cloud, a vast region containing millions of comets located more than two light years from the Sun.

If other comets have oxygen, this glimpse into the early solar system's chemistry could help us piece together a record of conditions on early Earth, too.

The measured value for 67P is much higher than the ratio in Earth's oceans and higher than in other comets, says ROSINA principal investigator Kathrin Altwegg, of the University of Bern.

«When other comets have split, their pieces have drifted apart, but something is keeping the pieces of Shoemaker - Levy in line.

This may be a result of it having formed in the early solar system in a different place from other comets.

No other comet or asteroid in the solar system varies so widely in brightness.

The comet also contains more frozen carbon dioxide, or dry ice, than has been found on any other comet.

In addition, you can actually trap a lot more solids by having that large, fluffy protoplanet basically vacuum up all the other comets that are in the disk.

Prior to impact, Tempel 1 displayed the same streaming dust as any other comet, pushed back from the cometary body by the sun's radiation.

Astronomers have observed a few thousand comets in our solar system and have found 10 other comet - hosting stars.

The telescope picked up the signatures of 21 compounds, including organic molecules such as ethylene glycol, formic acid and acetaldehyde that have been detected before on Hale - Bopp and other comets.

The composition of ISON and other comets will yield clues to the distribution of different substances in the early solar system.

Unlike every other comet that's ever been observed, the object's 140 - meter - wide nucleus sits off - center from the tail (see photo).

«This is unlike any other comet we have ever seen before,» said OSIRIS project manager Carsten Güttler from the MPS.

Comet 209P / LINEAR is usually a small dim comet that isn't spectacular as other comets such as Hale - Bopp and Halley, yet it lays down the essential ingredients for a meteor shower like most other comets.

This Sunday, a comet will come closer to Mars than any other comet has ever been seen to approach a planet without actually hitting it, sending our assorted spacecraft orbiting the red planet running for cover.