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Comets - Visitors from the frozen edge of the Solar System

Professor Carolin Crawford · Gresham College

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About

Millions of dirty icebergs orbit around the Sun in a huge cloud of debris almost a light-year in radius. These are all pristine relics of our primordial Solar nebula. Only when one tumbles towards the inner Solar system does it heat up to develop into the spectacular apparition known as a comet.

The talk

  1. Comets - Visitors from the frozen edge of the Solar System 2013-11-20 · YouTube

Credits and licence

Institution
Gresham College
Speaker
Professor Carolin Crawford
Year
2013
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Astronomy and space
Source
Gresham College
Licence
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