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Thursday, November 18, 2010
EPOXI spots snowballs coming off Hartley 2
The camera aboard
EPOXI
also spotted icy chunks jetting off the surface during that spacecraft's close approach to comet Hartley 2. The bigger chunks are golfball to basketball sized, according to this piece in
New Scientist
.
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