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Rosetta Probe Reveals What a Comet Smells Like
An anonymous reader writes If you like the smell of rotten eggs, horse urine, formaldehyde, bitter almonds, alcohol, vinegar with a hint of sweet ether, you'd love the smell of a comet. Researchers at the University of Bern, in Switzerland, determined the odor of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet by analyzing the chemicals in its coma, the fuzzy head surrounding the nucleus. The molecules were collected by an instrument aboard the Rosetta spacecraft, which has been flying in tandem with the comet.
Sounds like a list of ingredients for perfume. Rosetta perfume, anyone?
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So it smells like your average public men's restroom?
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I'm waiting for the smelloscope! Think of the astronomical odors you'd be able to smell thanks to the smelloscope!!
A bit surprising to me. It has implications for space colonization as organics are critical to food production and synthetic materials.
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More than a century ago, many people were scared to death by the smell of another comet
If you like the smell of rotten eggs, horse urine, formaldehyde, bitter almonds, alcohol, vinegar with a hint of sweet ether,
In other words, a comet smells like a college frat house.
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