El primer relato de la aparición de un cometa procede de una crónica china de en torno al 1059 a.C. (*). En él se cuenta que cuando el rey Wu-Wang emprendió una...
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BlogEl cometa de Alberti
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NoticiaEl cometa NEOWISE desde Canarias
Durante el mes de julio podremos ver el cometa C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) a simple vista desde Canarias y la Península.
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NoticiaEl Gran Telescopio Canarias obtiene un espectro del primer cometa interestelar C/2019 Q4 (Borisov)
El espectro tomado con el GTC de C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) muestra que el objeto tiene una composición similar a la de los cometas del Sistema Solar En la madrugada...
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PublicaciónEPOXI: Comet 103P/Hartley 2 Observations from a Worldwide Campaign
Earth- and space-based observations provide synergistic information for space mission encounters by providing data over longer timescales, at different...
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PublicaciónEvolution of a Spiral Jet in the Inner Coma of Comet Hale-Bopp (1995 O1)
We present observations of the evolution of a prominent spiral jet in the inner coma of comet Hale-Bopp (1995 O1). The observations, taken with the 82 cm IAC-80...
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PublicaciónEvolution of the dust coma in comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko before the 2009 perihelion
Context. Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is the main target of ESA's Rosetta mission and will be encountered in May 2014. Because the spacecraft will orbit the...
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PublicaciónExploring the nature of new main-belt comets with the 10.4 m GTC telescope: (300163) 2006 VW139
Aims: We aim to study the dust ejected by main-belt comet (MBC) (300163) 2006 VW139 to obtain information on the ejection mechanism and the spectral properties...
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PublicaciónHint of an exocomet transit in the CHEOPS light curve of HD 172555
HD 172555 is a young (~20 Myr) A7V star surrounded by a 10 au wide debris disk suspected to be replenished partly by collisions between large planetesimals...
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PublicaciónInfrared spectroscopy of the largest known trans-Neptunian object 2001 KX75
We report complete near-infrared (0.9-2.4 mu m) spectral observations of the largest know trans-Neptunian objects (TNO) 28976 = 2001 KX76 taken in two different...