Comet Nucleus Dust and Organics Return (CONDOR) is a mission concept to retrieve a sample from comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko to test ideas regarding...

nucleus is the solid, central part of a comet, formerly termed a dirty snowball or an icy dirtball. A cometary nucleus is composed of rock, dust, and...

the nucleus of the comet. Comet nuclei range from a few hundred meters to tens of kilometers across and are composed of loose collections of ice, dust, and...

became the first comet to be observed in detail by spacecraft, providing the first observational data on the structure of a comet nucleus and the mechanism...

Channel Islands, the UK, and France Condor of Bermuda, a yacht SS Condor, Grace Line steampships Comet Nucleus Dust and Organics Return (CONDOR), a spacecraft...

Venus Lander NASA received and reviewed 12 proposals: Comet Surface Sample Return Comet Nucleus Dust and Organics Return (CONDOR), to retrieve a sample...

massive nucleus size. This is twice as long as the Great Comet of 1811, the previous record holder. Accordingly, Hale–Bopp was dubbed the great comet of 1997...

Comet dust refers to cosmic dust that originates from a comet. Comet dust can provide clues to comets' origin. When the Earth passes through a comet dust...

spacecraft to land on a comet nucleus. On 30 September 2016, the Rosetta spacecraft ended its mission by landing on the comet in its Ma'at region. Churyumov–Gerasimenko...

Abiogenesis Comet Nucleus Dust and Organics Return (CONDOR), a competing concept for mission #4 List of missions to comets List of interstellar and circumstellar...

2018. Ames Research Center, California. Lunar and Planetary Institute. COmet Nucleus Dust and Organics Return (CONDOR): a New Frontiers 4 Mission Proposal...

proteins) by sampling and analysing the comet's nucleus and coma cloud of gas and dust, helping assess the contribution comets made to the beginnings of life on...

dust samples from the coma of comet Wild 2, as well as samples of cosmic dust, and return them to Earth for analysis. It was the first sample return mission...

spacecraft, which returned comet samples to Earth on January 15, 2006. It safely passed by Comet Wild 2 and collected dust samples from the comet's coma while...

(nondestructive) landing on a comet nucleus, although the lander's final, uncontrolled touchdown left it in a non-optimal location and orientation. Despite the...

has a bright green glow around its nucleus, due to the effect of sunlight on diatomic carbon and cyanogen. The comet's systematic designation starts with...

(we know today) to cosmic dust were noticed by humans for millennia: Zodiacal light, comets, and meteors (cf. Historical comet observations in China). Early...

September 2012). "Comet C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy): Orbit Determination, Outbursts, Disintegration of Nucleus, Dust-Tail Morphology, and Relationship to New...

on January 2, 2004, and collected particle samples from the comet's coma, which were returned to Earth along with interstellar dust it collected during...

orbited comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko from August 2014 to September 2016. During this time, Rosetta's instruments analyzed the nucleus, dust, gas, and plasma...

to the Sun, it showed no signs of having a coma, the usual nebula around comets formed when they pass near the Sun. Further, it exhibited non‑gravitational...

1980 suggesting the existence of a comet belt beyond Neptune which could serve as a source for short-period comets. In 1992, minor planet (15760) Albion...

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft flies through comet ATLAS' ion tail between May 31 and June 1 as well as its dust tail in the solar wind on June 6. 25 May...

Grigorev and mission control observing increasing seismic readings from within the comet. Sulman and Lessard continue their excursion, but the nucleus of the...

small Solar System bodies primarily composed of dust and ice instead of mineral and rock are known as comets; bodies less than one meter in diameter are known...

Ishii, H; et al. (2008). "Comparison of Comet 81P/Wild 2 dust with interplanetary dust from comets". Science. 319 (5862): 447–50. Bibcode:2008Sci...

in ionic, atomic, and molecular form, as well as dust and cosmic rays. It fills interstellar space and blends smoothly into the surrounding intergalactic...

arcuate nucleus and subsequently the melanocortin system, especially the melanocortin-4 receptors on second-order neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of...

of organic compounds was well ahead of his time, as the dominant views in the 1970s and 1980s were that comets largely consisted of water-ice, and the...

event candidate" associated with ASASSN-20hx, located near the nucleus of galaxy NGC 6297, and noted that the observation represented one of the "very few...