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Suicide Comets Discovered Around Fomalhaut
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 20:16
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Surprised astronomers are observing what appears to be dust be coming from collisions that destroy up to thousands of icy comets every day!
The collision rate so high, there must be between 260 billion and 83 trillion comets in the belt, depending on their size.
Our own Solar System has a similar number of comets in its Oort Cloud, which formed from objects scattered from a disc surrounding the Sun when it was as young as Fomalhaut. Rest of article with all images here:
