comet

The comet was a type known to astronomers as a sun-grazing comet because its path brought it extremely close to the sun.

apoapsis in solar orbit; the point in the orbit of a planet or comet that is at the greatest distance from the sun.

The first human inhabitants of North America may not have exterminated the mammoths. The culprit might have been a comet.

The slump is being discussed as if it were a natural catastrophe like the arrival of the comet that destroyed the dinosaurs.

But like the tail of every other comet, Halley's tail is just dust.

I took a pair of binoculars and stood out in the mission compound, searching the skies where I knew the comet could be seen.

The natives said that Bob looked like a comet as he ran around the village trying to find water.

If you are fortunate enough to see a comet, don't give it just a casual glance and then vanish indoors.

I knew you'd try to find something wrong with my comet, Lisa. You've always been petty and small, right from the beginning.

The comet made two passes around the Sun and in 1779 again passed very close to Jupiter, which then threw it back out of the solar system.

But little had been heard from Ikeya (at least outside Japan) until he made his sixth comet discovery last week.

People might remember a few years ago, we had a fantastic comet, called Comet Hale-Bopp; suddenly came out of nowhere.

"A young Springfieldianite has discovered a new comet to be known as the 'Bart Simpson Comet'. " Oh, honey, I'm so proud of you.

They point at the red Berlingo driving across the sky as though it were Halley's Comet.

As a comet gets closer to the sun, the ice on the surface of the nucleus begins turning into gas, forming a cloud known as the coma.

Thousands of chunks of material from the comet would have rained down on Earth, each one releasing the energy of a one megaton nuclear bomb.

He was an early proponent of the theory that life on Earth may have come from Mars in rocks ejected by asteroid and comet impacts.

That's what I'm trying to do. Said Comet. But it's too fast.

The emperor's long beard streamed in the wind like the tail of a flaming red comet.

Another way, in which life could fail to develop to an intelligent stage, would be if an asteroid or comet were to collide with the planet.

comet mcnaught , the brightest comet in decades , is now fading as it moves further into southern skies and away from the sun and earth.

The term Comet has been used to describe push technologies applied to Ajax web applications.

Since the era of industrialization, Fenner said, humans have had an effect on the planet rivaling any ice age or comet impact.

A small fraction of the rocks blasted off Mars by asteroid or comet impacts could have reached Earth in just a few years.

It's not Fireworks Night yet - but a spectacular explosion HAS lit up the night sky after a giant comet smashed into the Sun.

At first, astronomers thought it might be a so-called "main belt comet" --a rare case of a comet orbiting in the asteroid belt.

Like the earth, a comet goes round the sun, but on a much longer path than the earth travels.

Now space experts want to see how the comet has changed after its tour around the scorching sun.

"In the case of a planet, the hole is carved out by an asteroid or comet impact. "

Comet Holmes has an orbit between Mars and Jupiter and can be seen about every seven years as a very faint object in the sky.

The alluring celestial scene would also have been a rewarding one for the influential 18th century comet hunter Charles Messier .

Caught on camera over a swamp in Australia the stunning image shows the trail of the Comet Lovejoy as it passed close to Earth.

The comet crosses the inner solar system once every 128 years as part of its elongated orbit around the Sun.

An astronomer predicted the return of this comet [predicted that this comet would return].

When a comet gets close to the sun, melting ice releases pieces of dust, most no larger than grains of sand.

This occurs when the comet dives close to the sun and Earth passes through the resulting thick concentration of cosmic debris.

Comet McNaught has now returned to the outer Solar System and is now only visible with a large telescope.

Near the Sun they may vaporize, giving off the dust and gas that produce the comet's tail we see from Earth.

One recent impact that may have come from the comet is known as the Tagish Lake meteorite, said Professor Napier.

Comet Hale-Bopp has been spotted beyond the orbit of Neptune, far enough from the sun to be without its dirty tail. John Matson reports.

Oenophiles throughout history attribute the appearance of a comet for the reason why wines were extraordinary that year.

It is NOT a comet, and it has NO red tail or anything that would flip our planet anyway.

Some 65 million years ago, a comet or asteroid at least five miles wide struck the earth and blasted out a tremendous crater.

The comet met its fiery demise on July 6 when it zoomed in from behind the sun and melted into oblivion as it crashed into the star.

A comet is a bright object with a long tail that travels around the sun.

A comet is at perihelion when it is closest (=very close) to the sun.

And in May of 1910 folks all over the nation were in a space-age state of turmoil over Halley's Comet.

Any moving object, like an asteroid, comet or planet, would appear to jump from one photograph to the next.

Besides, the Tiber flooded its banks, a comet was seen, a two-headed child was born, and a woman gave birth to quintuplets.

In 1908, a -- just a 200 foot piece of a comet -- exploded over Siberia and flattened forests for maybe 100 miles.

Comet orbits are mostly long ellipses , so they spend most of the time far from the sun, cold.

Had it not met an untimely death, the comet would have been ejected back into heliocentric orbit within a few hundred years.

Just as everything was back to normal, a black comet falls to the center area of the scene.

The comet spotted last week in the constellation Cetus should continue to brighten as it approaches the Sun.

While I was in Easter Island , Comet McNaught was there also , so, you get a gratuitous picture of a moab with a comet .

He suggests that the earth may have been hit by a comet, or may have passed through the tail of a comet.

The results suggest that the object's tail is rubble from a crash with another asteroid, not the sign of a wayward comet.

Of the millions who saw Haley's comet in 1986, ho w many people will live long enough to see it return i n the twenty-first century.

Given enough time, the comet-like planet could theoretically evaporate away completely, but it would take about a trillion years.

Was the comet storm the sun went through recently the first big raindrops before the storm, or just an aberration?

You can witness a total eclipse from the Moon, watch the Sun set from the surface of Mars, or even ride a comet.

Vaporizing ices from the comet included cyanogen and diatomic carbon, both gases that glow green in sunlight out in the vacuum of space.

Comet fired the shuttle's jets. Then he tried to make a sharp turn, as the monster zoomed towards them.

"When I saw the comet, it was millions and millions of kilometers away, " he said.

It also means that the comet is not made of small, pristine interstellar materials either.

Dust tails are created when small particles from a comet are swept backward by the Sun's radiation pressure.

The red circle is the orbit of a long period object like a comet. Note the object and its tail.

A newfound comet is heading for a brush with the sun, one which it will likely not survive.

If I had binoculars, I could see that comet clearly.

They predicted accurately every eclipse of the moon and sun, the return of every comet.

The square windows on the original Comet jetliner were found to be the primary cause of its disintegration.

Some people feel that this light was a comet.

If a comet is large enough, it might survive being heated by the air and gouge out a crater on land or under the sea.

In 2004, the ship flew through the tail of comet Wild 2 and collected dust particles that it stored in a small re-entry pod.

The catastrophe was caused by a disintegrating comet and saw the planet sprayed by thousands of frozen boulders made of ice and dust.

This allows RTMP to be used for Comet style communications and real time data push.

Even now the comet is spewing cyanogen and diatomic carbon, both gases that glow green in sunlight out in the vacuum of space.

Life on Earth may have begun with a bang, when microorganisms, hitching a ride on a comet or asteroid, crash landed on our planet.

The death of a comet that plunged into the sun was captured on camera this month for the first time in history, scientists say.

The comet-ice evaporates in the Sun's heat. Clouds of trapped dust emerge and surround the comet, glittering in the sunlight.

The "Deep Impact" made the powdery fragments on the surface of the comet nucleus splash in all directions.

The comet is discovered by an amateur, which until recently was how most comets were discovered.

A new comet is brightening and is now expected to become visible to the unaided eye later this month.

As the comet nears the sun, its ice melts, releasing gas and dust that stream away into space.

Photographs of this comet reveal a spiral formation at times and a square in the comet at other times.

Deep Impact also found evidence of ice on the surface of the comet, not just inside it.

By studying these chunks , astronomers can compare the material at the center of a comet with material at its surface.

Occasionally, a comet is deflected from the Oort cloud to orbit the Sun in a long, elliptical path.

Reverse AJAX: Service Streaming, as applied to AJAX, is known as Reverse AJAX or COMET .

The earliest record of an appearance by Halley's Comet (613 BC) is contained in the chronicle of Lu known as the Spring and Autumn Annals.

Comet's impacts are likely to be more rare than asteroid impacts, but they're going to be much harder to mitigate against. . .

It could be a comet, rogue planet, or as this book maintains, a dying brown dwarf companion to Sol.

On March 12th, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) watched as a comet plunged into the sun and disappeared.

But now astronomers have gotten a glimpse of a comet with a different origin, and it matches the oceans much better.

we will be fine, though we are suffering now have to walk thousands of miles the comet burns at the last moment when lies are broken.

Future releases will also include the WebSocket protocol and a Comet Protocol implementation.

The appearance of a comet caused universal dismay in the ancient world.

Comet Hartley 2 became active recently as it neared the Sun and sunlight warmed the comet.

The Chesapeake Bay region of southeastern Virginia is the site of an asteroid or comet impact that occurred during the Eocene.

How could a body tell from which of the Tibetan passes the Russian host might suddenly flash forth like a baleful comet?

It had been announced that a comet is heading towards the Earth.

Like a comet blazing 'cross the evening sky, gone too soon. Like a rainbow fading in the twinkling of an eye, gone too soon.

Since comet tails are shaped by sunlight and the solar wind, they always point away from the sun.

You can switch freely among the Comet, polling, or even piggyback methods, simply by altering DWR's configuration.

Near the image center, though, seen through clouds, was the most unusual sight of all: Comet McNaught.

In this movie, a comet miles across is headed toward Earth, sure to cause a mass extinction if it hits.

JFA: Atmosphere will just move the comet activities from Grizzly into a new project.

The rare comet remains visible to the unaided eyes of northern observers as an unusual small puff ball in the constellation of Perseus .

'The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory recorded the comet's last hours. The end was punctuated by an unexpected explosion. '

This polling will provide the illusion of data being pushed (also known as Comet or reverse Ajax) from the server.

Arrow: Printing fault in gravure which appears as a mark in the shape of an arrow head on the print. Also called comet.

The comet's ice, heated by the sun, rapidly and spectacular sublimate to gas.

Now, it should be pointed out that many people do not consider polling to be Comet.

The images show a bizarre X-shaped object at the head of a comet-like trail of material.

When can you group make completelythe comet'succeed in obtaining, Do the important matter not to be able to hesitate.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of comet; a happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset. ---Ann Landers.

Nevertheless, one of the appeals of the Comet strategy is its perceived efficiency.

Then we won't be able to see the comet.

Explanation: Still gracing northern skies, a fading Comet Holmes lies at the top edge of this colorful sky view, recorded on March 4.

but in pierre s heart that bright comet , with its long , luminous tail , aroused no feeling of dread.

He was known as Uther Pendragon after being inspired by a dragon-shaped comet.

It will not be hit by a comet or any other missile, and we will deal with any such threat.

Unlike the hovering, twinkling firefly, Pyrophorus beetles glow for several seconds then fly like a comet.

Comet stars have much more material and burn for a longer duration of time, creating broad strokes.

Captain Comet was watering the plants when he had a strange feeling.

Meteor showers are just the debris of a passing comet or sometimes the debris from a fragmented asteroid.

Say a comet like this crashed into the young Earth billions of years ago.

Comet style implementation - keeping the HTTP channel open for the duration of a long running request.

a comet consists of a tiny nucleus with diameter less than 10km . the nucleus is made up of frozen gases and dust.

Describing the comet, mission scientist Don Yeomans of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory said, "It's hyperactive, small and feisty. "

Of the millions who saw Haley's comet in 1986, how many people will live long enough to see it return to the twenty-first century.

The Orionid meteors are created by a band of small particles that circle through the solar system in the orbit of Halley's comet.

Of the millions who saw Hdraugustht beery's comet in 1986; how many peoplewilllive long enough to see it return in the twenty-first century.

Better APIs are needed to send and receive chunked messages to a Comet streaming style server-side application.

And best of all, DWR can auto-detect when it's running under Jetty and switch to using Continuations for nonblocking Comet.

A comet like object enters coming within the orbit of Venus on the franc, crossing Earth's orbit twice, just like Planet X, aka Nibiru.

This was the impact that happened last week on a comet.

It's so hot that boiled iron and silicates are flowing into the stellar wind, much like a comet's tail.

Scientists say the excess heavy nitrogen could have come from a comet.

Comet stared at the screen.

This was of only passing interest until someone realized that Earth would pass through the tail of Halley's comet in 1910.

Instead they consider Comet to be the solutions to the limitations of polling.

This evidence was used to suggest that at the end of the Permian, 250 million years ago, a comet hit us.

Until the 2009 collision, the last known impact event on Jupiter was the famous "death" of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 in 1994.

Comet, please just chill out a little bit, OK?

These occasional comet showers could be why the mass extinctions on Earth are so regular, some scientists believe.

Comet Hartley 2, visible on the right, is now fading but still discernable to northern observers with binoculars.

In 1999 the space agency fitted its Stardust space probe with a mitt packed full of aerogel to catch the dust from a comet's tail.

The fan-shaped region that stretches upward from Johnson's nucleus (yellow ball in the middle) represents the dust "tail" of the comet.

Hartley 2 is a so-called Jupiter family comet, because its orbit takes the comet close to the orbits of Jupiter and the other gas giants.

This means that the comet really is an aggregate of very different stuff, and hasn't undergone any real geologic change to shake a stick at.

Australian Anthony Wesley discovered that a comet or asteroid had crashed into Jupiter, and emailed Nasa to let them know.

You've now seen how Jetty Continuations combined with Comet can provide an efficient, scalable solution for event-driven Ajax applications.

Foodstuffs - DNA - Comet Assay for the detection of irradiated foodstuff - Screening method.

Since there is no Comet standard as such, let's distinguish between two types of Comet implementations: long-polling and streaming.

we are going to see comet tonight.

What's more, the green comet's orbit is in nearly the same plane as Earth's but the comet is traveling in the opposite direction.

For these reasons, confirmed comet impacts on the earth are so far unknown.

Two of the most popular open source servers, Apache Tomcat and Jetty, have both leveraged NIO to add non-blocking IO and thus enable Comet.

But they were also surprised at the size of the Haley's comet icy center.

In fact, this encounter was the fifth time a spacecraft from planet Earth has imaged a comet close-up.

With a comet like him, nothing can be accomplished.

The comet nucleus itself is too small to hold on to these gases through gravitation.

Ajax messaging used to create Comet-style architectures.

Dust from comet Swift-Tuttle is responsible for the Perseids, creating the northern hemisphere's regular summer sky show.

JFA: Two years ago I've blogged about the Grizzly Comet Framework, and since that time I was able to build a community around it.

The code to pass Comet events to such a handler mechanism may look like Listing 5.

But who takes off his eyes from a comet when that breaks out?

The most famous comet in history is called Halley's comet.

The comet will split up during its close approach to the sun.

That's why comet tails always point away from the sun.

Deep Impact first visited Comet Tempel 1 in 2005, crashing an impactor into the comet to help scan its composition from afar.

Grizzly http extension allows you to write Comet based application without the need for Servlet support, which is sometimes required.

Captain Comet tried to make another sharp turn. The space monster was getting closer and closer.

The spacecraft detected an envelope of gas around the comet.

Meteor showers occur when the Earth passes through a trail of dust particles left by a comet.

Below the comet-chasing spacecraft lies a dark boundary along the martian Syrtis region.

This was the first time ocean-like water was detected in a comet.

And that was a very bright comet, and suddenly it was there in our midst.

The EPOXI spacecraft imaged the jets in unprecedented detail during its flyby of the comet earlier this month.

The rings are presently tilted nearly edge-on to our view and the brighter planet is overexposed to record details of the fainter comet.

Atmosphere which started off as an evolution of Grizzly, is a POJO based framework that aims to bring Comet to the masses.

Our contributors are leading software engineers who build Comet servers, clients, and web applications.

So far Comet has been leading the data push story in the open source and open standards world.

He followed the tenuous trail of the rainbow comet, a natural stellar phenomenon said to lead directly to Roon.

Stargazers were struck with the uncommon magnitude of the newly discovered comet.

However, the team notes, the comet assay -- a single cell gel electrophoresis approach -- can provide relatively rapid results.

There has been some controversy whether Pluto is a planet or some other object like a large comet or an asteroid.

When the comet approaches the sun, it begins to glow because the electron cloud is energized by the sun's proton wind.

They may have gone, along with mammoths, short-headed bears, ground sloths and camels, because a comet exploded over their heads.

They find that in the present day it is rare for a moon to collide with another moon or with an interplanetary body such as a comet.

Limit your usage of Comet streaming to only those applications that require immediate event notifications.

Computer models show that meteor and comet strikes probably melted only a small part oftheearth's crust.

This comet was named after British scientist Edmund Halley for he found its running regulation first.

Larger gold comet stars border the teal pellets and flare out when ignited, eventually peeling off into sharp scarlet quills.

Explanation: Did you know that Van Gogh's painting Starry Night includes Comet Hale-Bopp?

It also comes with an efficient real-time module (Gravity), based on Comet implementations, allowing scalable data-push.

The comet, weighing about 500 trillion tons, covering an area equivalent to the size of New York City.

This article shows how you can use the Jetty servlet engine and DWR together to implement a Comet Web application simply and efficiently.

But Comet Kohoutek offered astronomers a unique opportunity to make a concerted attack on many of the problems.

The first one (released last week) is a the CPR (Comet Portable Runtime) which brings portability to web application who want t use Comet .

What happened the games began, a comet appeared in the sky.

Will you all stop worrying about that stupid comet? It's going to be destroyed, didn't you hear what that guy in the building said?

"Given the intense heat and radiation, the comet simply evaporated away completely, " SDO officials said.

Can you find, in the above image, a comet, a spiral galaxy, an open star cluster, and a supernova remnant?

One mission, called Deep Impact, will probe the interior of a comet by shooting a 770-pound (350-kilogram ) copper bullet through its heart.

Only once every thousand years when the Millennium Comet is visible in the night sky does Jirachi awaken at a traveling circus.

The word "comet" comes from Greek and it means a "hairy object" .

Immense heat and pressure in the shock wave spark the creation of ammonia, or NH3, from nitrogen in the air and hydrogen in the comet.

This allows for a very different approach to Comet.

Between the threats of comet and weevils, the farmers were running low on optimism.

This is a comet filmed in 2005. It's about 4 miles across, and like all comets, it's made of rock and water in the form of ice.

On occasion a comet will release its stored energy in a burst of photons when the EM ropes provide a surge in protons.

Unlike those objects, comet Kushida-Muramatsu eventually escaped Jupiter's gravity.

Hand with money, old horse and the I start filling drunken, also due to redeem for comet's Atlantic watch temper.

The larger the comet and longer the comet travels through space without discharging, the more electricity is stored in the comet.

Do HTML5 Web Sockets handle firewalls and proxy server issues better than Comet?

But measurements of Halley's Comet and five others threw cold water on the idea that comets provided a large share of the oceans.

It also happens to be the source of many long period comets such as Comet Elenin, as well as other objects of interest.

The concentrations of elements in the comet varies tremendously between particles.

A comet may have been the cause of the Tunguska event in Russia in 1908.

Solar radiation also breaks comet water down into hydroxyl particles, composed of one oxygen and one hydrogen atom.

because a comet will be coming in from deep space, we'll have a few years at best, a few months at worst, knowledge before impact. . .

Lift also makes Comet-style Ajax perform especially well thanks to Scala's actor-based concurrency system.

Both Comet streaming and hybrid polling applications permit two-way communication once the initial connection is set up.

A tsunami is a series of huge waves, it caused by an underwater earthquake, or a small comet hit the ocean.

Comet and Spanner set off in the space shuttle to look for the new planet. Spanner was very excited.

In 1994, Hubble captured the historical event of a comet smashing into Jupiter.

In Comet, the server keeps that connection open and keeps on writing data whenever a relevant event occurs.

What's more, visible were bright but extremely rare filamentary striae from the comet's expansive dust tail.

Comet was looking at one of the giant purple spikes, it felt soft and warm.

The cause of dust tail striae are not known for sure, but are possibly related to fragmentation of comet's nucleus.

The Comet Swan, a faint, green-tinted comet, viewable in the western sky after sunset, is growing ever dimmer.

The Tomcat Comet API is specifically designed to support the Comet interaction pattern.

But before Comet could stop him, Spanner hammered the sharp flagpole into the ground.

A suitable optical system was developed to observe the sodium cloud - the artificial comet.

Of course, the comet and background stars move at different rates through planet Earth's skies.

The comet is seen as its coma enters the bright equatorial solar wind region(oriented vertically).

Perhaps, the most famous one is the Comet Halley, it has a closed orbit with a period of 76 years.

Which annalistic style book in ancient China leaving the earliest record about Halley's Comet?

At present, Comet Chemicals' main products are black toner for HP and Samsung laser printers .

The recombined frames show off both the rich star field and faint details of the comet.

Methods Komet Image Analysis System (KIAS) technique was employed in comet assay.

Comet Lulin is framed by red-lit trees in Virginia's Shenandoah National Park in a picture taken February 23.

Perhaps look at the comet as a bringer of a new dawn and hope.

After the comet hit a second jolt from volcanoes may have helped send the dinosaurs to their doom.

Methods: To detect lymphocyte ofm houses blood of the three dose groups and compared groups in separate by comet assay.

Hari was 26, a Malaysian of Indian descent, a lawyer from a radical family, a comet flashing across Jacques's well-ordered universe.

NASA deliberately crashed its probe, named Deep Impact, into the Tempel 1 comet to unleash a spray of material formed billions of years ago.

The results show that comet fiber has very good pollutant catching capacity and resumption performance.