Comets cross the Solar System until they collide or evolve and break up in the main asteroid belt.

Generally speaking, scientists believe that it goes around and around the solar system until it bumps into something, something big like a planet. Although we have recently noticed that some asteroids and comets end up colliding with each other, when they do, both courses are altered. And sometimes one or both are completely destroyed by the impact.

We observed Comet Levy impacting Jupiter, and are currently observing a comet heading towards the Sun in 2010. We also observed a comet impacting an asteroid, demolishing the asteroid, and in this case the comet seemed to stay quite close to its course. original. . For those who think they can shoot down an asteroid or comet, this poses a pretty big problem. If a comet and an asteroid can collide at such a speed, and one can keep going, then we might have a problem using kinetic missiles to try to take out a comet.

In fact, there was another great article on SpaceWeather(dot)com titled “Comet Dipped into the Sun” posted on October 20, 2010 that said, “A newly discovered comet is dipping towards the sun. Chinese comet hunter Bo Zhou found it on Oct. 19 in SOHO coronagraph images. The comet is faint now, but should brighten in the next few hours as it warms.”

There is another potential eventuality, and there has been some debate and research paper on this, that is, when a comet decays in its orbit or hits something that slows it down, it could pull out and then re-enter the asteroid belt and ride like a horse. racing. it starts to graze. Of course, as it passes through the asteroid belt, it could collide with an asteroid and send it into a new Earth-crossing orbit.

Comets are very interesting things to study, as are asteroids, and while NASA is planning a manned mission to an asteroid, you might want to do some more personal research on this topic. So please consider all this.

References:

1. “Comets: Creators and Destroyers” by David H. Levy, Touchstone Publishers, a division of Simon and Schuster, New York, NY, (1998), pp. 256, ISBN: 978-0684852553.
2. “The Threat of Comets and Asteroids” by Gerrit L. Verschuur, Oxford Press, New York, NY, (1996), pp. 237, ISBN: 0-19-510105-7.
3. “Red Doomsday Comets and Asteroids – the Million Megaton Threat Thing Life on Earth,” by Duncan Steele (foreword by Arthur C. Clarke), John Wiley and Sons, New York, NY, (1995), pp. 308, ISBN: 0-471-30824-2.
4. Research paper: “Asteroid Comet Evolution” by PR Weissman, WF Bottke Jr., HF Levinson, published in Asteroids III pp. 669-686, 2002.
5. ASD News Online – October 20, 2010 article titled; “When a comet is not a comet – Rosetta finds out – Two asteroids in the wrong place at the wrong time” (source; ESA).