comet
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The mission is expected to be completed by 2029 and will wait in space for an opportunity to investigate a suitable comet or other promising target.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
"We no longer have to wait for an asteroid or comet to come to Earth to understand their histories," Ms. Losurdo said.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
Its appearance only after the comet had already passed close to the Sun suggests the methane was buried beneath the surface.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2026
As a comet approaches the Sun, its ice turns directly into gas and releases huge amounts of dust into space.
From Science Daily ● May 14, 2026
He wasn’t like Frankie, who crackled with excited energy and thundered by like a comet in whose blaze I could only follow.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
The process created carbon-rich dust resembling material that floats through interstellar space and is preserved inside comets, asteroids and meteorites.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
He’s standing across the net from comets barely half his age and smoking almost all of them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
Many scientists believed Silverpit was created by a hypervelocity impact, the term used for collisions involving asteroids or comets traveling at several miles per second.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 30, 2026
Studying this activity helps scientists understand how asteroids and comets physically evolve over time.
From Science Daily ● May 14, 2026
Unfortunately, on this occasion Galileo’s explanation of comets was also wrong, and there is no point in relating the details of the argument here.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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