2 min listen
604-Comet Rankin
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Length:
2 minutes
Released:
Sep 4, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
There may be as many as a trillion small icy objects in the Oort cloud near the outer edge of our solar system. Very rarely one of these frozen ice balls is jostled by the gravity of a nearby star causing its distant path about our Sun to be transformed into one which takes it near the planets we know. Most of these small comets pass unnoticed by humans although occasionally one can become bright enough to be seen with the naked eye.
Released:
Sep 4, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
84-Space Travelers-Martian Meteorites: Rocks ejected from Mars by the impact of an asteroid or comet can and do find their way to Earth. by Travelers In The Night