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Rosetta Spacecraft's Comet Target: 5 Strange Facts

Rosetta Spacecraft's Comet Target: 5 Strange Facts After a 10-year trek through the solar system, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft has made some amazing discoveries about Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. From its color to its shape, mission controllers have been surprised by Rosetta's seemingly odd target. "I feel that this is really a historic moment in science," Holger Sierks, one of the principle investigators for an instrument on the mission, said on in a Sept. 15 press conference. Here are five strange facts about Rosetta's target, Comet 67P/C-G:




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