67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko

67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko — comet, shown live in Cosmoscope, a real-time 3D map of the universe.

The duck-shaped comet that ESA’s Rosetta orbited for two years, dropping the Philae lander onto its surface. Its ices hiss into jets of gas each time it swings inside the orbit of Mars.

Nucleus
~4.3 × 2.6 km
Period
6.45 years
Next perihelion
2028
Visited
Rosetta, 2014–2016
Landed on
Philae, 12 Nov 2014
Shape
Two lobes — a cosmic rubber duck

Seeing 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko in real time

Cosmoscope puts 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko at its true position in the solar system, computed from JPL-derived ephemeris and updated continuously. Open the live 3D view to see, in real time, how far 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko is from the Sun and from Earth right now, how many minutes or hours light takes to cross that gap, and how fast it is moving along its orbit. Scrub the timeline to place 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko where it was on any past date, or where it will be years from now.

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