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“This is due to the fact that fireballs originate from larger particles of cometary material.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2025
"The chemical compositions of the melt splashes suggest that Ryugu's hydrous silicates mixed with cometary dust."
From Science Daily ● Jan. 23, 2024
The outburst may result from a rare case of icy volcanism on a comet—uncorked by solar heating of volatile gases trapped under cometary crusts.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 26, 2023
In the same paper, Loeb theorized the acceleration could have been a result of cometary outgassing, but said it was unlikely because there was no evidence for a cometary tail around it.
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2023
There the Sun heats it, the ice is vaporized, and a lovely cometary tail develops.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
