Comets Form Like Deep Fried Ice Cream Scoops

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 11, 2015 @07:37AM from the hold-the-whipped-cream dept.

astroengine writes Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, Calif., have added another oddity to the cometary 'weird list': comets are best described as scoops of deep fried ice cream. "The crust is made of crystalline ice, while the interior is colder and more porous," said Murthy Gudipati of JPL, co-author of a recent study appearing in The Journal of Physical Chemistry. "The organics are like a final layer of chocolate on top."

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Not really odd by Iamthecheese · 2015-02-11 07:50 · Score: 3, Informative

That's what happens when you melt and refreeze the surface of a foamed polyphasic material. How is this odd?

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