Comets are very much like asteroids.

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Comets are very much like asteroids.

Named after the planetoid Ceres

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(c) The detection and study of comets, asteroids and other small bodies in the solar system

(5) Asteroid analysis

And since this came in on a Friday, they were able to get this great footage of this thing breaking up as it came in over West Virgina, Maryland, Pennsylvania and New Jersey until it did that to a car in New York.

Don't mix up comets and asteroids.

Of more concern, I think, is the asteroids that exist between Mars and Jupiter.

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Named after the asteroid Pallas

But you have it in planets and asteroids.

Some of them are smaller.

Mercury is the smallest of the eight planets in the Solar System.

The Subcommittee noted that near Earth objects were asteroids and comets with orbits that crossed the orbit of the planet Earth.

Mercury is the smallest planet in our solar system.

The Subcommittee noted the following investigations by the United States the Mars Global Surveyor, for the global observation of Mars, and the Mars Pathfinder Mission the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission, for the study and observation of asteroids Cassini Huygens, for the investigation of Saturn and its moons and the Lunar Prospector, for lunar exploration.

You don't land on it, because these things are tumbling end over end.

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Missions involving small satellites can, however, be a complement to large satellite missions.

We sent a probe out to this asteroid belt, called NEAR, Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous.

MUSE C is a sample return mission of 4660 Nereus, a near earth asteroid which seems to be one of the most primitive bodies in our solar system.

While on its way to Jupiter, Galileo also examined another asteroid, Gaspra, which, like Ida, travels in the main asteroid belt orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter.

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The Subcommittee noted missions planned for future launch, including Mars 96, Planet B, Mars Surveyor, Orbiter and Pathfinder, for investigation of Mars Lunar Prospector for lunar exploration Cassini Huygens, for investigation of Saturn and its moons and the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR), Stardust and Rosetta missions to asteroids and comets.

Up until recently, that was the Solar System four Earth like planets with small radius, smaller than about two times the size of the Earth and that was of course Mercury, Venus, Mars, and of course the Earth, and then the two big, giant planets.

It also noted missions planned for future launch, including the Stardust and Rosetta missions to asteroids and comets.

So now we have Pluto to join the numbers of small planets.

It has a fairly substantial number of asteroids between the orbit of the Earth out through to the orbit of Jupiter.

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Little star sweeper.

During the past year, the recovery of additional image data from the 1993 encounter of the Galileo spacecraft with the asteroid Ida showed the asteroid had a moon.

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