What Is a Comet?

NASA Space Place (.gov)·Dec 20

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A Rare Comet Made History as the Third Known Interstellar Object to Fly Through Our Solar System. Studies Are Now Revealing the Mysterious Conditions in Which It Formed

Smithsonian Magazine·Jun 29

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Do Short-Period Comets Still Reveal Recent Creation?

Answers in Genesis·Mar 11

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Asteroid or comet? Meteor or meteorite? Answers here

EarthSky·Jun 22

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Star HD 7977 Passed By The Sun 2.5 Million Years Ago, And We Can Still See The Disturbance In Comets Today

IFLScience·Jun 26

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Webb telescope finds interstellar comet had exotic, unfamiliar chemistry

Mashable·Jun 23

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Q&A: Look up! What it takes to discover a comet

University of Arizona News·Nov 4

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The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is now thought to be 10 to 12 billion years old, meaning it was already drifting between the stars for more than twice the age of the Sun before our solar system existed.

Space Daily·Jul 1

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NASA’s Hubble Detects First-Ever Spin Reversal of Tiny Comet

NASA Science (.gov)·Mar 26