#Rosetta and #Philae find #comet not magnetised
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/04/14/rosetta-and-philae-find-comet-not-magnetised
This new result was just presented at EGU2015 and is published in #Science Express today. The text is mirrored from our news story on the main ESA web portal. Measurements made by #rosetta and #philae during the probe’s multiple landings on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko show that the comet’s nucleus is not magnetised. Studying the properties of a comet can provide clues to the role that magnetic fields played in the formation of Solar System bodies almost 4.6 billion years ago. The infant Solar System was once nothing more than a swirling disc of gas and dust but, within a few million years, the Sun burst into life in the centre of this turbulent disc, with the leftover material going into forming the asteroids, #Comets, moons and planets. The dust contained an appreciable fraction of iron, (...)
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