in what country was Comet West discovered in?
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La Silla observatory Chile took the shots, but discovery was made in Switzerland where they were evaluated.
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Comet. Here's a picture of a big one near Earth:\nhttp://wsx.lanl.gov/WebPub/images/comet-hale-bopp_wurden-3-6-97.jpg\n\nNotice the two tails. The white tail is from ice becoming gas like a snowball in July. Comets are only really stable when they are in the outer reaches of the solar system. There is also a glowing blue tail that looks like it is some sort of Hollywood magic. This is the ion tain from the solar wind blowing across the comet and pulling along charged particles. Cool, huh?\n\nNo one really knows what the surface of a comet looks like because they are always boiling away and shrouding their cores when they are near Earth. Best guess is something like an enormous dirty snowball, only made with frozen CO2 and CH4 in addition to good old H20. It is very cold out where they are most of the time, so things that don't normally freeze turn into ices.
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Go onto the Net and search for NEO's (Near Earth Objects) and you can download all the Data you need. Generally we are hit by a very large body every 200,000 years. Check out Tunguska in Siberia on the Net, where a comet exploded in the upper atmosphere, flattening 100,s of 1000,s of square kilometres of forest in 1908. JULES
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You know you can find this stuff with google, right?\nHalley's Comet is about 1/10 of one percent the diameter of Earth, although it isn't really round. Its density is about 55 times less than Earth which would make it's mass about 0.000000002% of Earth.
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b. western Scandinavia
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west europe ....\n\ngood luck
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The Westside...as seen in the link below:\nhttp://www.avatarrecords.com/records/artists/PlanetAsia/img/westside.jpg
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Shoemaker 1, tonight!\n\nVery comprehensive calender of comets below:\n\nhttp://www.aerith.net/comet/future-n.html\n\nBut for a simple answer, look at this website, it seems that today (7th June) we will see  the brilliantly named 102P/Shoemaker 1, which you can read about at the second of the two below links, and the third link is wikipedia's little info page on it (the important info is in the table at the right-hand side of the page)\n\nhttp://cometography.com/current_comets.html\nhttp://cometography.com/pcomets/102P.html\n\nSo get that telescope out! :-) Hope that helps
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It was discovered by Antonio Ingognito, in 1983. He had a good idea it would be where it was because his Lonely Planet book said so. Other people had discovered it before but they weren't explorers.
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On first glance, answer seems to be west.\nHowever, the data given in the question is insufficient to conclusively say so !!
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If you want good data and you are not trying to observe something that is temporary like a comet, I highly recommend skyview. You don't get to steer the telescope and see real time images, but there are some great surveys in many different wavelengths there.\n\nhttp://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov
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I think they would be one of the guys who discovered comet "Hale-Bopp" several years ago.  That is the one that hit Jupiter back in the 90's.
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I have a guess, what yous saw was planet Jupiter.  No, Venus can not be seen exactly between East and West in the middle of the night.
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there is a picture in the Port Elizabeth Herald of a comet landing in the ocean,see late May issues. No word about the military though.
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I would guess somewhere in central america
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The speed of a comet can be found by observing its motion relative to background stars. First you'd need to know the comet's distance when you begin measurements. Also, the longer you observe it and gather data on its movement the more accurate will be the velocity solution.
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the answer is jupiter.  galileo discovered io, europa, ganymede, and callisto in 1610.