Student fascinated with comets devises a strategy for defending earth from potential impact
Thursday, November 17, 2016 - 07:41
in Astronomy & Space
Growing up in the California desert, Qicheng Zhang developed an early appreciation for stars and the universal expanse beyond the sky. But his biggest space curiosity by far was with comets, those celestial bodies of ice, gas and dust, leftovers from the long-ago formation of stars and planets.