UNIVERSE
COMETS
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Halley’s Comet
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Hale-Bopp
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Rosetta
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Shoemaker-Levy 9
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Detailed explanation-1: -Rosetta was a European deep space probe launched on what was originally projected to be an 11.5-year mission to rendezvous, orbit, study and to land on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
Detailed explanation-2: -The comet was most active just after perihelion in August and September 2015, its jets carrying streams of primordial dust into space. Rosetta is a European Space Agency mission with contributions from its member states and NASA.
Detailed explanation-3: -The international Rosetta mission was launched in 2004 and consists of the orbiter spacecraft Rosetta and the lander Philae. The aim of the mission is to map the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko by remote sensing, and to examine its environment in situ and its evolution in the inner Solar System.