Comet Bot
Dr. Nick Attree🎵 It's student presentation time 🎵
#JAE-Intro day at @[email protected]. Students are presenting the work they've been doing in their JAE internship and PhD projects.
My student, Alba, is presenting her project on the analysis of historic #comet ☄️ non-gravitational forces and orbits
Where are we now?2026-05-18 04:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-17)
☄️10P/TEMPEL 2
- Barycentric speed: 28.38 km/s (+0.06 km/s)
- Perihelion in: 75 days
- Closest approach to Earth in: 77 days
- Brightness (Mag): 15.33 (-0.03)
- Visibility: Both hemispheres | Small/medium telescope | Dark sky
🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 129,198,364.92 km (-1,598,125.91 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.86 (-0.01)
- Light travel time: 7 min 10.97 s (-5.33 s)
2026-05-18 04:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-17)
☄️88P/HOWELL
- Barycentric speed: 29.85 km/s (-0.06 km/s)
- Perihelion - occured
- Closest approach to Earth in: 144 days
- Brightness (Mag): 15.05 (+0.01)
- Visibility: Both hemispheres | Small/medium telescope | Dark sky
🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 291,574,331.56 km (-53,062.47 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.95 (-0.00)
- Light travel time: 16 min 12.62 s (-0.18 s)
2026-05-18 04:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-17)
☄️C/2025 R3 PANSTARRS
- Barycentric speed: 46.50 km/s (-0.48 km/s)
- Perihelion - occured
- Closest approach to Earth - occurred
- Brightness (Mag): 11.12 (+0.17)
- Visibility: Both hemispheres | Binoculars | Dark sky
🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 161,000,535.01 km (+5,078,797.61 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.08 (+0.03)
- Light travel time: 8 min 57.06 s (+16.94 s)
astropicDark Side of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
This image of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was obtained on October 30, 2014 by the OSIRIS scientific imaging system on the Rosetta spacecraft. The right half is obscured by darkness.
More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA19040
Credit: Copyright: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
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