24 April 2020
A population of interstellar asteroids has been found hiding between Jupiter and Neptune
... asteroids flung out from the inner solar system or comets travelling in toward the sun from afar. The unknown...But, unlike the recently identified interstellar visitors ‘Oumuamua, and comet 21/Borisov, which are just passing through our Solar System ...
December 2014
Motion capture
... the UK Natural Environment Research Council’s Centre for the Observation and Modelling of Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tectonics (COMET). Our research aims to improve our understanding of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. We want to know what causes...
31 August 2020
"Dry" meteorites unlock the origin of Earth's water
... for this disparity, it has been suggested that icy comets or asteroids which originated in the outer Solar System delivered...oceans, but 5 percent of it appears to delivered by comets or water-rich asteroids, meaning Earth obtained the overwhelming ...
08 April 2019
Catching Stardust: Comets, Asteroids and the Birth of the Solar System
... plates until ESA’s Giotto spacecraft made a ‘close approach’ to Comet Halley in 1986; even then it only got within about 600 ...begins with the formation of the solar system, placing comets and asteroids in the context of the Earth-Moon system...
March 2016
Rosetta – Starting from Scratch
... encounter was a major event in the history of Solar System exploration. However, a fly-by brings a spacecraft in the vicinity of a comet nucleus only for a short time and at very high relative velocity. Pictures and measurements of the nucleus...
February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
...loss of modern infrastructure around the world from a massive coronal mass ejection, to total destruction of a species by a gigantic comet or asteroid that could wipe out life as we know it. McGill University’s Global Space Governance Study lists the...
