'Snowy Dirtball' Mission Rewrites Knowledge of Comets
8th Sep 2005, 22:02 GMT
The first detailed analysis from a mission that smashed a hole in a comet suggests these wanderers are fragile agglomerations of dust, laced with carbon molecules.
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