Just as forensic scientists examine fingerprints at a crime scene to identify the killer, astronomers working with data from NASA's New Horizons, Cassini, and Galileo missions can find evidence of comet fragment collisions with the rings of Saturn and Jupiter.
A supposed comet detected earlier this year with the help of the Hubble space telescope has finally turned out to be the glow of a violent collision in the asteroid belt, according to the magazine 'Nature'. This is the first time that a crash of this type has been observed.
Until a few days ago, astronomers were looking with concern at Apophis, an asteroid the size of two soccer fields that, according to initial calculations, would approach Earth in 2029 with a 2.7 percent chance of impact.
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