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Entered orbit around 67P at 09:06 UTC on 6 August 2014. On 30 September 2016 mission ended in an attempt to slow land on the comet's surface near a 130 m (425 ft) wide pit called Deir el-Medina. Ariane 5G+ Philae: 2 March 2004: ESA / DLR Germany: 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko: Lander Successful: Carried by Rosetta.
The ‘green comet’ is now visible from Earth for the first time in 50,000 years. Watch as a green comet flies by Earth. Friday 3 February 2023 07:59, Josh Marcus. Watch as a green comet flew ...
The comet is officially named for the astronomers credited with its first two sightings: Jean-Louis Pons in 1812 and William Robert Brooks in 1883, according to The Sky Live, which provides ...
C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is a non-periodic comet, which reached perihelion on 13 January 2025, at a distance of 0.09 AU (13 million km) from the Sun.It is potentially the brightest comet of 2025, [6] with an apparent magnitude reaching −3.8 on the day of its perihelion. [5]
Missions to Halley's Comet (7 P) R. Rosetta mission (15 P) Pages in category "Missions to comets" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
C/2022 E3 (ZTF) comet is visible with the naked eye from certain locations
Mission: lunar orbiter serving as communications satellite for Chang'e 6, Chang'e 7 Chang'e 8 and International Lunar Research Station on lunar far-side mission; Launched: 20 March 2024; Destination: Moon (in lunar orbit) Arrival: 2024 (planned) Institution: CNSA; Tiandu-1. Mission: Testing technologies for a future lunar Satellite constellation.
🪨 Asteroids 🪨. NASA keeps a handy list of the five closest asteroids predicted to fly by Earth, including 2022 YH3, a whopping 290-foot rocky mass that whipped by our planet on January 14 ...