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LMS? Issue 6 | 2013
News | International & Local
SA Scientists Discover First-ever Comet Nucleus
A
team of South African scientists
and international collaborators
have discovered the first-ever definitive
evidence of a comet striking Earth’s
atmosphere. The research on this finding
will be published in Earth and Planetary
Science Letters later this year.
“Comets always visit our skies - they’re
these dirty snowballs of ice mixed with
dust – but never before in history has
material from a comet ever been foun