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Hurling comets around a planetary nursery

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An analysis of hundreds of star-grazing comets in a young planetary system shows that they form two families: a group of old, dried-out comets and a younger group probably related to the break-up of a larger planetary body. See Letter p.462

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Figure 1: A family of fragments from a broken-up comet.

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  1. Aki Roberge is at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA.,

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Roberge, A. Hurling comets around a planetary nursery. Nature 514, 440–441 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/514440a

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