"This is going to give us the most extensive observation of a comet to date," said Timothy W. Larson, the project manager for the mission.
In addition to aperture polarimetry of comet Garradd, we present the results of spectropolarimetric observations of the comet with a long slit.
Rothmann argued from the observations of the comet of 1585 that the lack of observed parallax indicated that the Comet was beyond Saturn, while the absence of observed refraction indicated the celestial region was of the same material as air, hence there were no planetary spheres.
The ground-based astronomic observations of comet cannot provide a proper phase angle coverage that is needed to estimate with a reasonable accuracy all of the attributes of comet polarization phase curve.
French and American presidential elections happen on the same year as rarely as observations of Halley's Comet, a few times each century.
The sky background was measured several times during the observations of the comet.
This figure also displays the value of linear polarization Pr = 4.9 ± 0.2% obtained from spectropolarimetric observations of the comet at the 6-m BTA telescope on February 2 , 2012
At first, when observations of the comet were sparse and its orbit wasn't well defined, they suggested that the cosmic iceball even had a small chance of striking Mars.
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