Watch Comet MAPS get destroyed by cataclysmic fragmentation near the sun
Joe Rao
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The solar system has one less comet.
The much-heralded Comet MAPS, proclaimed by some as "The Great Easter Comet," met its end this past Saturday (April 4). The comet apparently underwent a cataclysmic fragmentation just hours before it was to make its closest approach — called perihelion — to the sun. Such was not...