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Rosetta Update: Dirty Snowball is Dry like Hell | Space News The European Space Agency’s Rosetta Mission to the comet 67/P may be rewriting everything astronomers thought they knew about the nature of comets. The latest high-resolution images of the comet nucleus have astonished scientists around the world, revealing a remarkably jagged, pitted, black as coal surface. It is nothing like the so-called dirty snowball or fluffy ice ball that mainstream astronomers have long envisioned. Most astonishingly, scientists have reported they have not found a single trace of water ice on the comet surface. It is, in the words of mission scientist Holger Sierks, dry like hell. Source story: news.yahoo/rosetta-spacecrafts-comet-target-5-strange-facts-135532150.html The Electric Comet documentary: Episode 3 Symbols of an Alien Sky: The Electric Comet (Full Documentary)
Posted on: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 20:21:39 +0000

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