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To: SunkenCiv

Comet Ping.


8 posted on 01/25/2015 5:16:15 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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Despite its solid appearance, 67P is highly porous with a density similar to wood or cork and orbited by a cloud of approximately 100,000 "grains" of material larger than 2 inches (5 cm) across stranded there after the comet's previous perihelion passage.
Extra to APoD.
9 posted on 01/25/2015 6:42:55 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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