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Comet c 2013 a1 siding spring.
20 with the comet at r 1 40 au using the hall 1 1 m telescope at lowell observatory.
Mcnaught at siding spring observatory using the 0 5 meter 20 in uppsala southern schmidt telescope.
Comet c 2013 a1 siding spring position and finder charts.
Comet c 2013 a1 siding spring mcnaught r.
These observations were acquired only about 8 hr after the comet s closest approach to mars and yield the following mean production rates.
At the time of discovery it was 7 2 au from the sun and located in the constellation lepus comet c 2013 a1 probably took millions of years to come from the oort cloud.
19 comet c 2013 a1 comet siding spring will pass within about 87 000 miles 139 500 km of mars.
Nasa s extensive fleet of science assets particularly those orbiting and roving mars have front row seats to image and study this once in a lifetime flyby.
Schleicher lowell observatory obtained two narrowband photometry sets of comet c 2013 a1 on oct.
These images were taken of comet c 2013 a1 siding spring by nasa s mars reconnaissance orbiter on oct.
19 2014 during the comet s close flyby of mars and the spacecraft.
C 2013 a1 siding spring is an oort cloud comet discovered on 3 january 2013 by robert h.
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.
Comet siding spring c 2013 a1 is racing toward mars for a close encounter on october 19 2014.
Below we provide comet c 2013 a1 siding spring finder charts showing where the object is right now in the sky with respect to the brightest stars.
Mcnaught reported the discovery of an apparently asteroidal object on ccd images obtained with the 0 5 m uppsala schmidt telescope on jan.
Comet siding spring is.
The first finder chart has a field of view of 50 degrees while the second one has a field of view of 10 degrees.