touching a Comet

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The Rosetta spacecraft is only a few hours from dispatching the automated landing probe Philae onto the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, that has been finally approached on August 2014 after a 10 years voyage. For the first time we are going to touch a Comet :D Fingers crossed !

You can read more about it here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29995540
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