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AS&T article- A Very Oddball Comet
Hi,
There was an article in this month's AS&T about a comet that was deficient in cyanogen (CN). The article was titled, "A Very Oddball Comet". The proposal for this was that it formed in the Oort Cloud rather than the Kuiper Belt.
Could another option be that it is remnant of a previous "solar system"- the precursor to our current one? Any previous system would also have been deficient in CN, so...
anyway, thanks for taking the time to read/answer a weakly researched question!
cheers,
DJDD
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