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Dust and cosmic rays from the surface of a binary comet (WP, GIF)
- araes 3y agoWas reading about New Horizons, going past Arrokoth [1], contact binary planetesimals [2], and stumbled onto neat video of a lander on the surface of a binary comet. The actual comet is 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko [3] out by Jupiter. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/486958_Arrokoth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/486958_Arrokoth [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_binary_(small_Solar_System_body) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_binary_(small_Solar_Sy... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/67P/Churyumov%E2%80%93Gerasimenko https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/67P/Churyumov%E2%80%93Gerasime...