Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Rosetta's comet · the rubber duck
5.09 AU from Earth
The comet ESA's Rosetta orbited from 2014 to 2016, and the first one landed on (by Philae, on 12 November 2014). Two lobes 4.1 and 2.6 km long, joined by a neck like a rubber duck, and about half as dense as water.
- shown as on 13 August 2015, at its closest to the Sun (1.24 AU)
- then losing up to 300 kg of water and 1,000 kg of dust a second
- now 4.35 AU from the Sun · it circles it every 6.4 years
Numbers that change with time are from 8 November 2026.
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