The ESAs Rosetta probe has become the first Human probe to achieve an encounter of a comet. The comet, currently 55 million kilometers away from Earth, 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko took 10 years for Rosetta to reach. Rosetta is now in an orbit, mapping 67P and will launch the Philae lander onto the comet in November. It will follow the comet for 15 months, as the comet reaches its Periapsis with the sun.
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