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    Zdeněk Sekanina (born 12 June 1936) is a Czech-American astronomer and scientist. In 1959, Sekanina studied astronomy at Charles University in Prague...
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    tail projecting toward the Sun from the head of Kohoutek [...] Dr Zdenek Sekanina concluded that the spike was not wholly due to a perspective or geometrical...
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  • Anubis 6534 P-L Anubis, Ancient Egyptian god JPL · 1912 1913 Sekanina 1928 SF Zdenek Sekanina (born 1936), Czech-born American astronomer MPC · 1913 1914...
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    arcminutes long was observed visually to extend eastwards. Astronomer Zdenek Sekanina suggested that this indicates that the comet nucleus has been fragmenting...
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    no reports of discoveries of any such objects. In 1983, astronomer Zdeněk Sekanina published a paper criticising the comet hypothesis. He pointed out...
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    using the Lick Observatory and an elongated nucleus on 10 October. Zdenek Sekanina estimated the fragment separated from the main nucleus in 24 April...
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    furthered this idea; using observations from the Pierre Auger Observatory, Zdeněk Sekanina and Paul Chodas determined that, while the nucleus did survive perihelion...
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    Extrapolation of the observed positions of the two nuclei calculated by Zdenek Sekanina suggested that the nuclei broke apart on 26 October. Similar calculations...
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    disintegrated interstellar comet (or exocomet), as suggested by astronomer Zdenek Sekanina. Spectra from the Hale Telescope on 25 October showed red color resembling...
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  • Marsden) 1886 Lowell (Percival Lowell) 1896 Beer (Wilhelm Beer) 1913 Sekanina (Zdeněk Sekanina) 1940 Whipple (Fred Lawrence Whipple) 1965 van de Kamp (Peter...
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    1978 by Zdeněk Sekanina, based on the assumption that the comet's head was on a great circle "through the sun and inner part of the tail". Sekanina was subsequently...
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    Mila Rechcigl (born 1930), scientist, long-term president of the SVU Zdenek Sekanina (born 1936), Czech-American astronomer Přemysl Sobotka (born 1944)...
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    searches for it during the later 20th century. Brian G. Marsden and Zdeněk Sekanina attempted to calculate a likely orbit for any remaining parts of the...
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    December 10 and noted that it had two nuclei 6.3 arcseconds apart. Zdenek Sekanina estimated that the nuclei were separated on 30 November 1947. On December...
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    November 1994 while fragment D was observed during the 1999 apparition. Zdenek Sekanina estimated that the first break-up of the comet took place in late 1987...
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  • Journal. 72: 1170. Bibcode:1967AJ.....72.1170M. doi:10.1086/110396. Sekanina, Zdenek (20 October 2000). "Secondary Fragmentation of the Solar and Heliospheric...
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    According to a theory by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist Zdeněk Sekanina, the latest impactor to actually make contact with the Sun was the...
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    from the original on 21 December 2013. Retrieved 21 December 2013. Zdenek, Sekanina & Kracht, Rainer (2014). "Disintegration of Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON)...
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    two nuclei were of equal brightness and separated by 3.5 arcseconds. Zdenek Sekanina calculated that the splitting occurred on Mar. 29.9 ± 1.6 UT, when...
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    earlier attempts, lead Marsden to conclude that the comet was lost. Zdenek Sekanina suggested that the comet underwent a change in the rotation axis of...
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  • on ČT1, and as of May 2024[update] two seasons have been aired. Viktor Sekanina as Jakub Kadlec Marek Adamczyk as Martin Kadlec, Jakub's father Marta Dancingerová...
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    to the Sun) in 2034. In 1991, 101P/Chernykh was observed to split. Zdenek Sekanina, from JPL, concluded that the comet split in April 1991, when 3.3 AU...
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  • from the original on January 11, 2017. Retrieved August 29, 2022. Zdenek Sekanina; Paul W. Chodas (December 2005). "Origin of the Marsden and Kracht...
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  • No. 5316". Central Bureau Electronic Telegrams. 11 November 2023. Sekanina, Zdenek; Kracht, Rainer (1 May 2016). "Pairs and Groups of Genetically Related...
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    mission spots new comets". Universe Today. Retrieved 31 December 2016. Sekanina, Zdenek (2019). "1I/'Oumuamua and the Problem of Survival of Oort Cloud Comets...
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  • бояться комету Еленина?. Pravda (in Russian). Retrieved 14 January 2013. Sekanina, Zdenek; Kracht, Rainer (8 May 2014). "Disintegration of Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON)...
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  • bright Kreutz sungrazers. List of Kreutz sungrazers Lists of comets Sekanina, Zdeněk; Chodas, Paul W. (2004). "Fragmentation hierarchy of bright sungrazing...
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    September 1882", The Observatory, 12: 140–142, Bibcode:1889Obs....12..140P Sekanina, Zdeněk; Chodas, Paul W. (July 2007), "Fragmentation Hierarchy of Bright Sungrazing...
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  • by Vladislav Vančura, Ivan Sekanina, Ladislav Štoll and others. The chairman of the newly found organisation became Zdeněk Nejedlý in 1932. The chosen...
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    390L...6M. doi:10.1111/j.1745-3933.2008.00510.x. S2CID 119299384. Sekanina, Zdeněk; Chodas, Paul W. (December 2005). "Origin of the Marsden and Kracht...
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