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Astronomers Think They Know Where Rosetta’s Comet Came From

21 Oct , 2016 by Bob King

A new study reveals that Rosetta’s Comet likely spent billions of years chilling in the Kuiper Belt before chance interactions with Neptune and Jupiter wrangled it into the inner Solar System.

67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, asteroid, comet, Featured, kuiper belt, Neptune, rosetta, scattered disk

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