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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.

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.

27 Oct 2022: WELCOME to our weekly public open evenings for the 2022/23 season. Each night there will be a halfhour talk which begins promptly at 7.15pm. Please note that the talk will be recorded and archived for online streaming. The talk is followed by an

18 Dec 2019: Comets are. basically giant dirty snowballs in. space, and as they orbit the sun. ... a comet's debris. Now, NASA's. Parker Solar Probe has confirmed. that the Geminids originate from a.

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.

15 Oct 2019: objects such as passing asteroids. or comets," said Sheppard. Excitingly, the team is asking for.

15 May 2024: Search site. Institute of Astronomy - Public. The Messier Catalogue - from comets to galaxies.

15 May 2024: Key publications:. Can comets deliver prebiotic molecules to rocky exoplanets? Anslow R.J., Bonsor A., Rimmer P.B.

15 May 2024: Maiolino et al. 2005, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 440, L51. "Comets" orbiting a black hole.

15 May 2024: Solar System Dynamics:. Horner J., Evans N.W., Bailey M.E., Asher D., 2003, The populations of Comet-like bodies in the Solar System, MNRAS, 343, 105.

15 May 2024: Debris discs and comet populations around Sun-like stars: the Solar System in context.

15 May 2024: Temporary observatory at Fosterdown, Surrey, established to observe return of Halley's Comet in May 1910.

15 May 2024: diversity of CHN - and CHS -bearing molecules on solar system comets.

15 May 2024: Speaker:. Making A Comet for Christmas. Date:. Wednesday, 21 December, 2005 - 19:15.

15 May 2024: One long-standing theory is that they could have been delivered by comets. ... Now, researchers from the IoA have shown how comets could deposit similar building blocks to other planets in the galaxy.

15 May 2024: diversity of CHN - and CHS -bearing molecules on solar system comets.

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15 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 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

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