C 2013 a1 siding spring is an oort cloud comet discovered on 3 january 2013 by robert h.
Comet c 2013 a1 siding spring.
Comet siding spring c 2013 a1 is racing toward mars for a close encounter on october 19 2014.
At the time of discovery it was 7 2 au from the sun and located in the constellation lepus comet c 2013 a1 probably took millions of years to come from the oort cloud.
Comet c 2013 a1 siding spring position and finder charts.
These observations were acquired only about 8 hr after the comet s closest approach to mars and yield the following mean production rates.
Comet siding spring is.
3 discovery observations tabulated below.
Schleicher lowell observatory obtained two narrowband photometry sets of comet c 2013 a1 on oct.
Mcnaught reported the discovery of an apparently asteroidal object on ccd images obtained with the 0 5 m uppsala schmidt telescope on jan.
Mcnaught at siding spring observatory using the 0 5 meter 20 in uppsala southern schmidt telescope.
20 with the comet at r 1 40 au using the hall 1 1 m telescope at lowell observatory.
Below we provide comet c 2013 a1 siding spring finder charts showing where the object is right now in the sky with respect to the brightest stars.
Close comet flyby threw mars magnetic field into chaos.
Nasa s extensive fleet of science assets particularly those orbiting and roving mars have front row seats to image and study this once in a lifetime flyby.
19 comet c 2013 a1 comet siding spring will pass within about 87 000 miles 139 500 km of mars.
19 2014 during the comet s close flyby of mars and the spacecraft.
These images were taken of comet c 2013 a1 siding spring by nasa s mars reconnaissance orbiter on oct.
Haser 1 2 x 10 28 molecules s with an uncertainty of.
After posting at the minor planet center s neocp webpage mcnaught.