10 September 2021
Survey detects 461 Solar System objects not found before
... nine new “extreme” TNOs, four new Neptune Trojans, several new objects with high inclinations and an Oort cloud comet named after its discoverers; C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein). “The DES catalog represents a significant increase in the...
January 2016
Is Jupiter Really Our Protective Shield?
... orbit of Saturn disappeared. They were accreted by planets, ejected out of the Solar System, or incorporated into the Oort cloud of comets. Jupiter was the major cause of this purging…’ It is true that in these types of computational models very few...
December 2014
Rosetta revelations: the fabric of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
... of water. If the Earth has a different ratio than the comet, as is the case with, for example, Oort cloud comets (twice the terrestrial value), then we have to conclude that Oort cloud comets have brought, if any at all, only a very small fraction...
