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> Stefanie Milam at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, revealed that the gas coming out of the comet contained unusually high amounts of
by amerine 7y ago
> Stefanie Milam at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, revealed that the gas coming out of the comet contained unusually high amounts of carbon monoxide (CO). The concentration of CO is higher than anyone has detected in any comet within 2 au from the Sun (within less than 186 million miles, or 300 million kilometers).
Is that really that far in the scale of things traveling through our solar system?
- nitrogen 7y agoNot sure, but maybe that implies that most local comets lose their CO before getting that close to the sun?