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107P/Wilson-Harrington |
After successful rendez-vous with asteroid (9969) Braille on July 28, 1999 Deep Space 1 spacecraft is now aimed at comet 107P/Wilson-Harrington whichit should fly by in January 2001. Get the comet's updated orbit (ref.: JPL solution # 17).
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19P/Borrelly |
Several months later this autonomous probe may encounter comet 19P/Borrelly. Download the updated orbital parametersof this comet to RedShift (ref.: JPL solution # 17).
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67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko |
The European Space Agency's comet chasing spacecraft, Rosetta, is being prepared for it's launch in March 2004. Rosetta will reach the comet and go into orbit in August 2014. The spacecraft will map the surface of the comet in great detail and then actually land on the surface and provide high resolution images from the "ground" The comet 46P/Wirtanen is the target of Rosetta as well (ref: MPC 34423).
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9P/Tempel 1 |
On July 7, 1999 NASA announced a new comet mission, Deep Impact, to be launchedin 2004, which is to study comet 9P/Tempel 1. A 500 kg projectile will be fired to the comet nuclear, and an onboard camera and infrared spectrometer will investigate the result. As far as the crater is expected to be as large as a football field, it is expected that the "firework" will be observed by ground-based telescopes as well! Do not missa chance to look at such a picture. Although this should happen on July 4, 2005, it's worth to update the comet orbital parametrs right now to be ready in advance (ref.: JPL solution # 21).
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81P/Wild-2 |
Comet 81P/Wild-2 is the target of STARDUST mission launched on February 7,1999. For the first time in history a piece of comet will be collected and brought backto the Earth ! Get the orbital elements of this comet updated recently by JPL operational staff (ref. JPL solution # 34).
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46P/Wirtanen |
New set of orbital elements of comet 46P/Wirtanen is available. This comet is a target of the coming ROSETTA mission (ref: JPL solution #27).
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