Dust from a comet has been discovered for the first time on the Earth's surface
Tuesday, December 9, 2014 - 09:30
in Astronomy & Space
(Phys.org)—A combined team of researchers from Japan and the U.S. has found particles of comet dust in ice extracted from the Antarctic—the first time comet dust particles have been found on the surface of the Earth. In their paper published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, the researchers describe how they found the dust particles and what they've learned by analyzing them.