Download or read book Comet P Shoemaker Levy 9 Impact written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents information, images, animations, and other resources regarding the collision of fragments of Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter, which took place on July 16-22, 1995. Includes FAQs, fact sheets, impact images, artists' renditions of the impact, and observation information. Features papers and progress reports. Links to the Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) home page and other Shoemaker-Levy 9 WWW pages.
Download or read book Impact Jupiter written by David H. Levy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amateur astronomer and Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet co-discoverer David Levy recounts the story of the crash of the comet into the surface of Jupiter on July 16, 1994, and what the celestial impact taught scientists and the world.
Download or read book SL9 Impact 94 written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shoemaker Levy 9 SL9 Impact Images written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeff Foust provides access to images of the impact of comet Shoemaker Levy 9 (SL9) with Jupiter on July 16-22, 1994. Foust notes the source of each image and includes a description.
Download or read book Comet P Shoemaker Levy 9 Collision with Jupiter written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 collision with Jupiter that occurred during the Summer of 1994. Details the collision and provides images of the event and the comet, including shots of the comet's impact on the planet's surface. Contains photos of the cataclysm taken from several orbital vantage points, including aboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the Galileo, Ulysses, and Voyager 2 space probes. Offers links to the National Space Science Data Center's (NSSDC) Comet and Asteroid home page and the NSSDC Planetary home page.
Download or read book Abstracts for IAU Colloquium 156 written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Collision of Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 and Jupiter written by Keith S. Noll and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen chapters from international experts provide the standard reference on the event for graduate students and researchers in astronomy and planetary science.
Download or read book Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 Fragment Size Estimates written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter in July, 1994, was the largest, most energetic impact event on a planet ever witnessed. Because it broke up during a close encounter with Jupiter in 1992, it was bright enough to be discovered more than a year prior to impact, allowing the scientific community an unprecedented opportunity to assess the effects such an event would have. Many excellent observations were made from Earth-based telescopes, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the Galileo spacecraft en route to Jupiter. In this paper, these observations are used in conjunction with computational simulations performed with the CTH shock-physics hydrocode to determine the sizes of the fifteen fragments that made discernible impact features on the planet. To do this, CTH was equipped with a radiative ablation model and a post-processing radiative ray-trace capability that enabled light-flux predictions (often called the impact flash) for the viewing geometries of Galileo and ground-based observers. The five events recorded by Galileo were calibrated to give fragment size estimates. Compared against ground-based and HST observations, these estimates were extended using a least-squares analysis to assess the impacts of the remaining ten fragments. Some of the largest impacts (L, G and K) were greater that 1 km in diameter but the density of the fragments was low, about 0.25 g/cm3. The volume of the combined fifteen fragments would make a sphere 1.8 km in diameter. Assuming a pre-breakup density of 0.5 g/cm3, the parent body of Shoemaker-Levy 9 had a probable diameter of 1.4 km. The total kinetic energy of all the impacts was equivalent to the explosive yield of 300 Gigatons of TNT.
Download or read book Jupiter written by Fran Bagenal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive volume that summarizes our understanding of the jovian system.
Download or read book Prophecy and the Comet written by Daniel R. Walsh and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Impact Plumes Generated by the Shoemaker Levy 9 Comet Crash Into Jupiter written by Jennifer Rae Mills and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 Encounters Jupiter written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information pertaining to the encounter of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with the planet Jupiter in July 1994, made available by the Office of Public Outreach of the Space Telescope Science Institute. Notes that this includes data from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and other observatories. Includes public release images from HST and other observatories on the encounter. Links to other sites with Comet impact information.
Download or read book The Collision of Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 and Jupiter written by Keith S. Noll and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-07-26 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen chapters from international experts provide the standard reference on the event for graduate students and researchers in astronomy and planetary science.
Download or read book Images From Comet P Shoemaker Levy 9 SL 9 Collision with Jupiter written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features images from 1994 and 1995 of the Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL-9) collision with Jupiter, provided by the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Download or read book Comet P Shoemaker Levy 9 written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dynamics of Comets and Asteroids and Their Role in Earth History written by Shin Yabushita and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last decade of this century has seen a renewed interest in the dynamics and physics of the small bodies of the Solar System, Asteroids, Comets and Meteors. New observational evidences such as the discovery of the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt, refined numerical tools such as the symplectic integrators, analytical tools such as semi-numerical perturbation algorithms and in general a better understanding of the dynamics of Hamiltonian systems, all these factors have converged to make possible and worthwhile the study, over very long time spans, of these "minor" objects. Also the public, the media and even some political assell}blies have become aware that these "minor" objects of our planetary environnement could become deadly weapons. Apparently they did have a role in Earth history and a role more ominous than "predicting" defeat (or victory, why not?) to batches of credulous rulers. Remembering what may have happened to the dinosaurs but keeping all the discretion necessary to avoid creating irrational scares, it may not be unwise or irrelevant to improve our knowledge of the physics and dynamics of these objects and to study in particular their interactions with our planet.
Download or read book Newton s Gravity written by Douglas W. MacDougal and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-16 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Newton’s Gravity” conveys the power of simple mathematics to tell the fundamental truth about nature. Many people, for example, know the tides are caused by the pull of the Moon and to a lesser extent the Sun. But very few can explain exactly how and why that happens. Fewer still can calculate the actual pulls of the Moon and Sun on the oceans. This book shows in clear detail how to do this with simple tools. It uniquely crosses disciplines – history, astronomy, physics and mathematics – and takes pains to explain things frequently passed over or taken for granted in other books. Using a problem-based approach, “Newton’s Gravity” explores the surprisingly basic mathematics behind gravity, the most fundamental force that governs the movements of satellites, planets, and the stars. Author Douglas W. MacDougal uses actual problems from the history of astronomy, as well as original examples, to deepen understanding of how discoveries were made and what they mean. “Newton’s Gravity” concentrates strongly on the development of the science of orbital motion, beginning with Galileo, Kepler, and Newton, each of whom is prominently represented. Quotes and problems from Galileo’s Dialogs Concerning Two New Sciences and particularly Newton’s Principia help the reader get inside the mind of those thinkers and see the problems as they saw them, and experience their concise and typically eloquent writing. This book enables students and curious minds to explore the mysteries of celestial motion without having to know advanced mathematics. It will whet the reader’s curiosity to explore further and provide him or her the tools (mathematical or physical) to do so.
