Birthplace of Rosetta Probe's Comet Pinned Down

Tuesday, October 18, 2016 - 07:01 in Astronomy & Space

New analyses of the orbit of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko — on which Rosetta intentionally crash-landed on Sept. 30, ending the probe's historic mission — trace the object's origins back to the Kuiper Belt, whose most famous denizen is Pluto.

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