Comets

• ‘Never seen anything like it’: Meteor dazzles Vancouver Island’s South Coast

  The annual Orionid Meteor Shower, when Earth passes through the inbound debris of Halley's Comet, began on Oct. 2 and is expected to last until Nov. 7.

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  Oct 13, 2022
  
• NEOWISE comet a rare sight to see for Calgarians

  The director at the Rothney Astrophysical Observatory just outside of Calgary says Calgarians shouldn't waste the chance to see the comet NEOWISE.

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  Jul 16, 2020
  
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• Rosetta space probe crashes into comet ending 12-year mission

  Scientists began saying their final farewells to the Rosetta space probe Thursday, hours before its planned crash-landing on a comet.

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  Sep 29, 2016
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• Mysterious signal from space was unlikely alien, but passing comets: study

  In 1977, a signal was received from space unlike any astronomers had ever received. For years many postulated that it could have been alien in origin, but now an astronomer believes that there is a more likely explanation.

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  Jan 13, 2016
• Strange star observations still a mystery to astronomers

  Do you remember in October when a strange star had scientists talking about "aliens"? Though they've come up with a possible explanation, they still haven't solved the mystery.

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  Nov 25, 2015
• Philae probe gets a ‘sniff’ of acetone, indicating comets can concoct complex compounds

  Scientists say the Philae space probe has gathered data supporting the theory that comets can serve as cosmic laboratories in which some of the essential elements for life are assembled.

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  Jul 31, 2015
• It’s the pits: Comet observed by spacecraft seems to have sinkholes

  Comets are basically dirty snowballs, but it turns out they can have a very Earth-like feature: sinkholes.

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  Jul 1, 2015
• Rosetta spacecraft finds evidence for building blocks of life on comet

  Scientists have found further evidence that comets harbour the building blocks of life, and have collected the first close-up data that will help them understand how these celestial bodies evolve as they hurtle toward the sun.

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  Jan 22, 2015
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• Rosetta probe findings suggest Earth’s water did not come from comets

  The mystery of where Earth's water came from got murkier Wednesday when some astronomers essentially eliminated one of the chief suspects: comets.

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  Dec 10, 2014
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• Space exploration: Why do we invest in missions to asteroids and comets?

  It costs billions of dollars to send spacecraft to comets and asteroids, and at a risk of failure. So why do we continue to do it?

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  Nov 15, 2014