Investigating Cosmic Snowballs – Professor David Jewitt, University of California, Los Angeles

Oct 5, 2018 | physical sciences

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https://doi.org/10.26320/SCIENTIA169

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Professor David Jewitt and his team at UCLA explore the nature of comets. These fleeting visitors to our cosmic shore are important sources of information, and can help to reveal the origin and evolution of the solar system. Most recently, Professor Jewitt’s team have explained the unusual activity of some of the most distant comets in the solar system.

 

 

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