67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
A two-lobed comet, the first to be orbited and landed on by a spacecraft.
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; J. DePasquale, A. Koekemoer, A. Pagan (STScI) (CC BY 4.0)
A two-lobed chunk of ice and dust, shaped like a rubber duck, and the first comet a spacecraft ever landed on.
67P is a Jupiter-family comet with a period of about 6.4 years. It has a distinctive shape made of two lobes joined by a neck.
ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft orbited it from 2014 to 2016, and its lander Philae made the first landing on a comet in November 2014.
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