Minor Body Image and Diagram Page



 

Radar "movie" of the rotation of  1998 wt 24



 

Eros (The arrow shows a heart shaped feature, fitting for an asteroid named for "love".)  Also note that Eros is the only asteroid to be orbited and then landed upon by any space probe.



 

Four asteroids:  top:  Ida,  bottom:  Gaspra,  middle:  Phobos & Deimos captured asteroid moons of Mars



 

Deimos


Phobos


Comet Borrelly nucleus


Comet Borrelly nucleus showing jets (imaged by Deep Space 1)


Comet Halley nucleus with jets

Comet Tempel1 nucleus (Deep Impact target)

A closer image of the impact area.

Impact quicktime movie.


Comet Hale-Bopp (1997)


Comet diagram