Open AccessFarthest, Faintest detection of a comet
Author(s) -
Showstack Randy
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2003eo370006
Subject(s) - comet , observatory , astronomy , physics , astrobiology
Astronomers searching for small Trans‐Neptunian Objects announced on 1 September that they have captured the most distant observation ever made of a comet, and also the faintest comet observation. The object happens to be Halley's Comet, which scientists at the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Paranal, Chile, have detected at a heliocentric distance of 28.06 AU.