Astronomers Discover Missing Link For Origin Of Comets

Thursday, September 4, 2008 - 15:28 in Astronomy & Space

Astronomers have found an unusual object whose backward and tilted orbit around the Sun may clarify the origins of certain comets. In the first discovery of its kind, researchers from Canada, France and the United States have discovered an object that orbits around the Sun backwards, and tilted at an angle of 104 degrees -- almost perpendicular to the orbits of the planets.

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