The comet no one saw

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The development of a comprehensive comet detection system is high on the priority list of many Western government keen to use modern technology to prevent a possible future collision.

author: A'Hearn, Michael
Space sciences, Identification and classification

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Small bodies of the Solar System

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Scientists have come to accept that asteroids can behave like comets and comets can behave like asteroids. The distinctions between comets and asteroids have become quite blurred.

author: Yeomans, Don

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Determining the ages of comets from the fraction of crystalline dust

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A method of determining the age of comets from crystalline dust is discussed.

author: Nuth, Joseph A. III, Hill, Hugh G.M., Kletetschka, Gunther
Circumstellar matter

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subjects list: Research, Asteroids, Comets
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