At the time of discovery it was 7 2 au from the sun and located in the constellation lepus.
Comet c 2013 a1 siding spring.
Comet c 2013 a1 siding spring comet c 2013 a1 siding spring is currently in the constellation of leo minor.
Greenwich united kingdom change.
These images were taken of comet c 2013 a1 siding spring by nasa s mars reconnaissance orbiter on oct.
3 discovery observations tabulated below.
Close comet flyby threw mars magnetic field into chaos just weeks before the historic encounter of comet c 2013 a1 siding spring with mars in october 2014 nasa s mars atmosphere and volatile evolution maven spacecraft entered orbit around the red planet.
The current right ascension of comet c 2013 a1 siding spring is 10h 17m 19s and the declination is 34 39 41 topocentric coordinates computed for the selected location.
Comet siding spring is.
Comet siding spring c 2013 a1 is racing toward mars for a close encounter on october 19 2014.
Mcnaught reported the discovery of an apparently asteroidal object on ccd images obtained with the 0 5 m uppsala schmidt telescope on jan.
Haser 1 2 x 10 28 molecules s with an uncertainty of.
20 with the comet at r 1 40 au using the hall 1 1 m telescope at lowell observatory.
19 comet c 2013 a1 also known as comet siding spring will pass within about 87 000 miles 139 500 kilometers of the red planet less than half the distance between earth and our moon and less than one tenth the distance of any known comet flyby of earth.
These observations were acquired only about 8 hr after the comet s closest approach to mars and yield the following mean production rates.
Comet siding spring mars flyby on sunday oct.
Mcnaught at siding spring observatory using the 0 5 meter 20 in uppsala southern schmidt telescope.
Comet c 2013 a1 siding spring mcnaught r.
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