Comets Inside Out

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Comets Inside Out

• Dr. Donald Walter
• South Carolina State University

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Parts of a Comet
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Orbital Perturbation
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Discovery
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Comets Dirty Snowballs
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NASAs Deep Impact Mission
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NASAs Deep Impact Mission

• July 4, 2005
• Approach Animation
• Actual Collision seen by Impacter

Comet Temple 1
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Deep Impact From Flyby Craft

• Temple 1
• 16 seconds after impact
• View from afar by flyby craft

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NASAs Stardust Mission
Aerogel on Stardust captures dust from Comet Wild
2 in January 2004
Stardust returns to Earth January 2006
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Comet Shoemaker- Levy
Broke into parts and collided with Jupiter July
1994
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Links to Comet Sites

• Deep Impact
• http//deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html
• Stardust
• http//stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/
• Shoemaker-Levy Collision
• http//www2.jpl.nasa.gov/sl9/
• Interactive Comet Animation
• http//www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link/comets/come
  t_model_interactive.html