Author: Glen R.

  • Dark Comets? Seriously?

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    Were you to ask anyone to give a simple, off-the-cuff description of a comet, the likely response would be something like “….a brightly glowing ball of ice and dust sporting a long tail streaming out behind it as it sweeps gracefully across the night sky”. While this is a fairly good description on a superficial…

  • Meteorites: Interlopers from the Asteroid Belt

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    Before beginning this article, I think it prudent to first explain the difference between meteoroids, meteors, and meteorites. Here’s an easy and simple way to differentiate between the three: a “meteoroid” is a rocky body that is traveling through space “outside’ our planet’s atmosphere (just think of the “o” in “oid” as meaning “outside” the atmosphere);…