Tagged: comets

– There are hundreds of comets flying around the Solar System and Rosetta’s Comet is rather small compared to other enormous objects that exists in space. But, if we compare the size of Rosetta’s Comet to for example a city like Los Angeles the object...

Greek philosopher Aristotle who observed comets called them ‘stars with hair’. We often call them ‘snowballs’. These cosmic snowballs of frozen gases, rock and dust are approximately the size of a small town. The gases and dust form an gigantic tail that stretches away from...

, there was the 15th recorded periphelion passage of the famous Halley’s Comet. That year the comet came within 3.7 million miles (six million km) of the Earth. The comet is named after Edmond Halley, English astronomer, who examined reports of a comet approaching Earth...