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Q: How do you find a comet that could pose a threat to Earth but hasn’t passed our planet in the last 200 years or more?
A: You look for its footprint.
This is the basis of research led by Samantha Hemmelgarn, a first-year doctoral student in Northern Arizona University’s Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science.