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Loading contentA periodic comet orbited and landed on by ESA's Rosetta mission.
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How 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko connects across Asteria Star — scientific, cultural, and astrological links are kept separate.
The Sun and the bodies gravitationally bound to it.
Comet orbiter & lander · ESA · launched 2004.
The most numerous class of periodic comets, whose orbits are shepherded by Jupiter and which originate in the scattered disc beyond Neptune.
A sparse population of distant icy bodies on eccentric, inclined orbits, gravitationally scattered outward by Neptune — the likely source of many short-period comets.
ESA's Rosetta becomes the first spacecraft to orbit a comet and, with its Philae lander, the first to soft-land on one — comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
Rosetta's Philae lander made the first soft landing on the nucleus of a comet.
Periodic comet — 19P/Borrelly.
A long-period comet that was widely visible to the naked eye in 1997.
A comet that passed very close to Earth in 1996.
A long-period comet discovered in 2020 that became a bright naked-eye object in the Northern Hemisphere sky.
A comet that broke apart and collided with Jupiter in 1994.
A periodic comet (109P/Swift–Tuttle) that is the parent body of the Perseid meteor shower.
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European missions, observatories, and space science imagery.