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Pesquisa sugere mecanismos sob o qual este curioso objeto espacial ainda não esgotou sua reserva de materiais voláteis, apesar de periodicamente chegar a apenas cerca de 30 milhões de quilômetros de distância do Sol. Science Photo Library/Alamy

September 6, 2024

Conheça Phaethon, o asteroide que acha que é um cometa

Martin D. Suttle, The Open University

Não se espera que os asteroides emitam gás quando se aproximam do Sol da mesma forma que os cometas, mas Phaethon não recebeu esta mensagem

This curious rock orbits within 20 million miles of our Sun. Science Photo Library/Alamy

September 2, 2024

Meet Phaethon, a weird asteroid that thinks it’s a comet – our new research may explain what’s going on

Martin D. Suttle, The Open University

Asteroids aren’t supposed to emit gas when they get close to the Sun in the way that comets do, but Phaethon didn’t get the memo.

There was little time for water from the Earth’s atmosphere to contaminate the meteorite after it fell. Trustees of the Natural History Museum

March 10, 2023

A brief history of the UK’s Winchcombe meteorite

Martin D. Suttle, The Open University

In 2021, searchers recovered a meteorite that fell over the UK just hours earlier. Scientists have now reconstructed its story.

August 23, 2017

Here’s the blueprint for a global fireball observatory – and why we need one

Luke Daly, University of Glasgow; Gareth Collins, Imperial College London, and Martin D. Suttle, Imperial College London

Ten new remote cameras will soon be scouring the British night skies for meteorites.

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