Bad Astronomy -
24 May 2015 13:30
The folks at the European Space Agency released a new picture of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, and I have to admit that it threw me. Huh. That's the comet? Where's the second lobe? For a second I thought we were just seeing it end-on, so that the bi-lobed rubber ducky shape wasn't obvious. But then I realized the part we're seeing is too thin; the big bottom lobe is much wider than seen here. I did a bunch of rotations and such in my head, and quickly concluded there's simply no angle on the ...
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