A Spacecraft Could Tag Along for a Journey Toward the Sun To Watch a Comet Form in Real-Time

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To watch a comet form, a spacecraft could tag along for a journey toward the sun

Chicago IL (SPX) Oct 18, 2021 Deep in the solar system, between Jupiter and Neptune, lurk thousands of small chunks of ice and rock. Occasionally, one of them will bump into Jupiter's orbit, get caught and flung into the inner solar system-towards the sun, and us. This is thought to be the source of many of the comets that eventually pass Earth. A new study lays out the dynamics of this little-understood system. Among