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  2. Exoplanets | Institute of Astronomy

    https://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/exoplanets
    14 May 2024: Though the major planets are the most well-known component, the Solar System contains millions of other bodies, including asteroids, comets, moons, Kuiper belt objects, and dust. ... The presence of metals from asteroids or comets show up in the spectra
  3. 1 Institute of Astronomy University of Cambridge Natural Sciences ...

    https://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/files/2023-24_research_project_booklet.pdf
    15 Nov 2023: Such outer planetary systems. can continue to evolve dynamically, with occasionally asteroids or comets being scattered into the inner. ... asteroids or comets being scattered close to the white dwarf. These planetary bodies are torn apart by.
  4. Biographies A - D | Institute of Astronomy

    https://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/about/history/biographies-d
    14 May 2024: With Challis observed Comet 1861 II (MNRAS22(1862)267). See The Observatory, Vol. 39, p. ... Over the period 1855-59 he was a keen observer of comets and asteroids using the Northumberland Refractor.
  5. Observatories | Institute of Astronomy

    https://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/facilities/library/pictures-photographs/observatories
    14 May 2024: Temporary observatory at Fosterdown, Surrey, established to observe return of Halley's Comet in May 1910.
  6. Richard Anslow | Institute of Astronomy

    https://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/people/richard.anslow
    14 May 2024: Key publications:. Can comets deliver prebiotic molecules to rocky exoplanets? Anslow R.J., Bonsor A., Rimmer P.B.
  7. Heads Up! It’s a Meteor ShowerSmaller than grains of ...

    https://www.public.ast.cam.ac.uk/files/media/meteorshowerhandout.pdf
    20 Jan 2023: Meteor Showers Come From Comets. Comets come from the outer Solar System and leave behind a stream of dust as they are warmed by the Sun. ... Only a few comets pass through Earth’s orbit.The dust left behind by Halley’s comet causes the Eta Aquarid
  8. 2023 Institute of Astronomy Summer Research Opportunity Project…

    https://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.ast.cam.ac.uk/files/2023_ioa_summer_research_project_booklet.pdf
    18 Dec 2023: asteroids. Supervisor: Mark Wyatt. Description:. Around 20% of nearby stars are known to host belts of asteroids and comets, detectable from their.
  9. Prof. Mark Wyatt | Institute of Astronomy

    https://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/people/Mark.Wyatt
    14 May 2024: Debris discs and comet populations around Sun-like stars: the Solar System in context.
  10. 14 May 2024: Maiolino et al. 2005, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 440, L51. "Comets" orbiting a black hole.
  11. Talks | Institute of Astronomy

    https://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/aggregator/categories/3
    14 May 2024: diversity of CHN - and CHS -bearing molecules on solar system comets.
  12. Biographies E - L | Institute of Astronomy

    https://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/about/history/biographies-e-l
    14 May 2024: See also JBAA 20 (1910) 430-433 'Notes on Halley's Comet, April 13 to May 3, 1910'.
  13. Bouncing comets could deliver building blocks for life to exoplanets…

    https://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/news/bouncing-comets-could-deliver-building-blocks-life-exoplanets
    14 May 2024: One long-standing theory is that they could have been delivered by comets. ... Comets also contain large amounts of hydrogen cyanide (HCN), another important prebiotic molecule.
  14. Heads Up! It’s a Meteor ShowerSmaller than grains of ...

    https://www.public.ast.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.public.ast.cam.ac.uk/files/media/meteorshowerhandout.pdf
    20 Jan 2023: Meteor Showers Come From Comets. Comets come from the outer Solar System and leave behind a stream of dust as they are warmed by the Sun. ... Only a few comets pass through Earth’s orbit.The dust left behind by Halley’s comet causes the Eta Aquarid
  15. IoA Institute of Astronomy Talk Lists | Institute of Astronomy

    https://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/aggregator/sources/32
    14 May 2024: diversity of CHN - and CHS -bearing molecules on solar system comets.
  16. Astronomical Objects | Institute of Astronomy

    https://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/facilities/library/pictures-photographs/astronomical-objects
    14 May 2024: Two b/w photographs of Comet Bennett, 1970. Taken by William Granger. AMI/101/D.3.11. ... TOO/27/D.2.12. Comet Hale-Bopp 1997, taken by R.V. Willstrop with 3 Mirror Telescope.
  17. Biographies M - S | Institute of Astronomy

    https://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/about/history/biographies-m-s
    14 May 2024: Obit. Jonathan Shanklin (1953-?) Comet observations from Cambridge Observatory see 'Popular Astronomy' (SPA) Vol.
  18. WELCOME to our weekly pub­lic open evenings for the ...

    https://www.public.ast.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.public.ast.cam.ac.uk/files/weeky_handouts/11_jan.pdf
    13 Jan 2023: The comet will reach its perihelion (the point at which it is closest to the sun) on Thursday 12th January. ... Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) may soon be visible to the naked eye.
  19. https://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/taxonomy/term/62/feed

    https://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/taxonomy/term/62/feed
    14 May 2024: field-type-text-long field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Key publications:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><em>Can comets deliver prebiotic molecules
  20. WELCOME to our weekly pub­lic open evenings for the ...

    https://www.public.ast.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.public.ast.cam.ac.uk/files/weeky_handouts/22_feb.pdf
    1 Mar 2023: The blob was also seen to reappear whenever comet 108P/Ciffreo passed by the Sun. ... The unusual comet and its companion blob travelling through space. 2 22 FEB 2023— IOA PUBLIC OPEN EVENING.
  21. WELCOME to our weekly pub-lic open evenings for the2018/19 ...

    https://www.public.ast.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.public.ast.cam.ac.uk/files/weeky_handouts/16_oct_2019.pdf
    17 Oct 2019: mapping the comets orbit around. the Sun. Astronomers soon found. that the orbit of the comet was not. ... turns out that the comet is exactly. the same as comets in our own.

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