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June 03, 2016

Study shows how comets break up, make up
Boulder CO (SPX) Jun 02, 2016
For some comets, breaking up is not that hard to do. A new study led by Purdue University and the University of Colorado Boulder indicates the bodies of some periodic comets - objects that orbit the Sun in less than 200 years - may regularly split in two, then reunite down the road. In fact, this may be a repeating process fundamental to comet evolution, according to the study, which is being published in Nature on June 1. The team, led by Purdue postdoctoral fellow Masatoshi Hirabayashi and ... read more

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