Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Comets Could Arise Closer To Earth, Study Suggests

Comets Could Arise Closer To Earth, Study Suggests :

Comet 'Bites the Dust' Around Dead Star
Artist’s conception of a comet breaking up. Credit: NASA
There’s a potential “cometary graveyard” of inactive comets in our solar system wandering between Mars and Jupiter, a new Colombian research paper says. This contradicts a long-standing view that comets originate on the fringes of the solar system, in the Oort Cloud.
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