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“Comets, Rosetta and the origin of the
solar system”
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Thursday, 13. Oct. 2016 |
Video-Recording for any system with MP4-support
- Video.mp4 (ca.439 Mb) |
15:15 – 16:25 |
Speaker:
Willy Benz (University
Abstract :
Comets have always been thought as relics from the
early days of the solar system.
ESA's Rosetta mission by following the comet
67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P/CG)
along its trajectory, delivered for the first time not
just a snapshot in time of a comet
nucleus but its full time dependent evolution as it
approached the sun. Just like the stone
that gave the name to the mission, the wealth of data
recorded provides a unique
opportunity to help decipher the 4.5 billion yearlong
story of the solar system.
It turns out that the book is not so easy to read! In
this talk, I will discuss some ways to
reconcile some of the puzzling aspects of 67P/CG with
the recent progress made in
understanding the formation of planetary systems from
the study of exoplanets.