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"European scientists are preparing to celebrate an unusual midsummer
festival – on a comet that is currently 165 million kilometres from
Earth. The comet, 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, is set to reach the closest point to the Sun in its 6.5-year orbit on Thursday and Europe’s robot
probe Rosetta is poised to provide scientists with a ringside view.

The spaceship has already been in orbit around Comet 67P for a year and
has studied dust and gas as they have started to erupt from its surface
as it has approached the Sun. On Thursday, when the comet reaches
perihelion, its closest point to the Sun, that activity will reach its
peak."

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/08/rosetta-space-probe-comet-67p-closest-to-sun

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