Stardust Finds 'Horrendous' Comet in Dangerous Flyby
The NASA Stardust spacecraft literally had to fight its way both in and out of the head of comet Wild 2 on Jan. 2, when the vehicle was buffeted by 10 million comet-dust impacts while imaging what researchers described as "a horrendous body" that will rewrite the textbooks on the nature of comets...
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