Gateway into Inner Solar System Discovered, Finding May Alter Fundamental Understanding of Comet Evolution

Europlanet Research Infrastructure: Gateway into Inner Solar System Discovered, Finding May Alter Fundamental Understanding of Comet Evolution A new study may fundamentally alter our understanding of how comets arrive from the outskirts of the solar system and are funneled to the inner solar system coming closer to Earth. At the EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2019 in Geneva, planetary scientist Dr. Jordan Steckloff presented the discovery of an orbital 'Gateway' through which many comets pass just befor...