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On this day in 1969 – September 21st – during a comet-hunting expedition, Klim Churyumov and Svetlana Gerasimenko discovered the object subsequently named Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

This was the comet that would later be orbited and studied by ESA's Rosetta Mission.

Mona Evans
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