Comet Siding Spring Update

At the time of its discovery comet siding spring was farther from the sun than jupiter about 7 2 times farther away from the sun than earth.

Comet siding spring update.

Comet buzzes mars in once in a lifetime flyby the comet siding spring has successfully zoomed by mars in a super rare close encounter that is one for the history books. Comet siding spring whizzes past mars update by jenny vaughan. 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. Update october 18 2014.

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. The latest trajectory of comet 2013 a1 siding spring generated by the near earth object program office at nasa s jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena calif indicates the comet will pass within 186 000 miles 300 000 kilometers of mars and there is a strong possibility that it might pass much closer. Mcnaught at siding spring observatory using the 0 5 meter 20 in uppsala southern schmidt telescope. Mcnaught achieved this triumph on january 3 2013 using the 0 5 meter 20 inch uppsala schmidt telescope at siding spring observatory in new south wales australia.

Siding spring officially designated comet c 2013 a1 made its closest approach to mars at 2 28 p m. C 2013 a1 siding spring is an oort cloud comet discovered on 3 january 2013 by robert h. 19 at a distance of approximately 87 000 miles. Nasa s hubble space telescope has produced a unique composite image of comet siding spring as it made its never before seen close passage of a comet by mars.