46P/Wirtanen

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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What Wikipedia says

46P/Wirtanen is a small Jupiter-family comet with a current orbital period of 5.4 years. It was the original target for close investigation by the Rosetta spacecraft, planned by the European Space Agency, but an inability to meet the launch window caused Rosetta to be sent to 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko instead.

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