Comet Catalina Suggests Comets Delivered Carbon to Rocky Planets

Now this one-time visitor to our inner solar system is helping explain more about our own origins as it becomes apparent that comets like Catalina could have been an essential source of carbon on planets like Earth and Mars during the early formation of the solar system. New results from SOFIA, a joint project of NASA and the German Aerospace Center, were published recently in the Planetary Science Journal<iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/abca3e>.
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