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We just landed a spacecraft on a comet for the first time. Here's why it matters.

November 12, 2014 by Mateus Andrade in Innovation

All this data will be especially interesting because the comet is believed to have formed 4.6 billion years ago, from material leftover as Earth and the solar system's other planets were coalescing. As a result, understanding the composition of comets could help us better model the formation of the solar system.

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Written by Joseph Stromberg for Vox

November 12, 2014 /Mateus Andrade
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