A fireball over the skies of central Alberta last year captured the attention of international researchers, including astronomers at London, Ont.'s Western University. On Monday, the university announced that the cosmic origins of this particular meteoroid is now 'challenging' long-held beliefs about the origin’s of the solar system.
A fireball over the skies of central Alberta last year captured the attention of international researchers, including astronomers at London, Ont.’s Western University. On Monday, the university announced that the cosmic origins of this particular meteoroid is now “challenging” long-held beliefs about the origin’s of the solar system.
Sometimes these icy objects are put on a trajectory with the inner solar system and the sun, where they are viewed as comets. Western said scientists have not yet viewed any objects in the Oort Cloud directly, “but everything detected so far coming from its direction has been made of ice.” For Denis Vida, a Western meteor physics postdoctoral researcher, the implications of this discovery are truly out of this world.
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