Many famous comets originally formed in other solar systems
Thursday, June 10, 2010 - 14:11
in Astronomy & Space
Many of the most well known comets, including Halley, Hale-Bopp and, most recently, McNaught, may have been born in orbit around other stars, according to a new theory by an international team of astronomers led by a scientist from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colo.