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On the Origin of Comets and Their Importance for the Cosmogony of the Solar System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

V. G. Fesenkov
V. G. Fesenkov*
Affiliation:
Committee on Meteorites, U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Moscow, U.S.S.R.

Abstract

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The processes in interstellar space, as well as the structure of nebulae – including the numerous small condensations around newly formed stars – suggest a relationship to the formation of the cometary cloud surrounding the Sun. Study of carbonaceous chondrites has revealed that in the earliest stage of the solar system's existence frequent periods of brief heating occurred, leading to the formation of very complex organic compounds and also of chondrules of crystalline structure. This was most probably a consequence of cometary collisions. The Tunguska phenomenon illustrates some consequences of a similar collision.

Type
Part V/Origin and Evolution of Comets
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 45: The Motion, Evolution of Orbits and Origin of Comets , 1972 , pp. 409 - 412
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1972 

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