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Title: 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
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