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67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

(67P, 67P/C-G)
(comet visited by Rosetta space mission)

67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P or 67P/C-G) is a comet discovered in 1967 in an orbit ranging from 1.2 AU to 5.7 AU from the Sun. It was visited by the European Space Agency mission Rosetta, which was launched in 2004 and reached the comet in 2014. CAESAR is a concept for a mission to bring back a sample.

(comet)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(spacecraft)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAESAR_(spacecraft)
http://cometography.com/pcomets/067p.html
https://www.spacereference.org/comet/67p-churyumov-gerasimenko
https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=67P
RedshiftParsecs
/Distance		Lightyears
/Lookback Years		  
~00.2AU~0lynearest67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
~06.7AU~0lyfurthest67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Referenced by pages:
CAESAR
Rosetta
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