[BenLurkin]

Four-image photo mosaic comprising images taken by Rosetta’s navigation camera on 31 August 2014 from a distance of 61 km from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The mosaic has been rotated and contrast enhanced to bring out details. The comet nucleus is about 4 km across. Credits: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM/Ken Kremer/Marco Di Lorenzo

Several morphologically different regions are indicated in this preliminary map, which is oriented with the comet’s ‘body’ in the foreground and the ‘head’ in the background. Credits: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA

[Jack Hydrazine]

How cute that the scientific imaging system on the orbiter of ESA’s Rosetta mission to comet is called OSIRIS (Optical, Spectroscopic, and Infrared Remote Imaging System).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osiris

The Kings of Egypt were associated with Osiris in death — as Osiris rose from the dead they would, in union with him, inherit eternal life through a process of imitative magic.

What is dying on this comet and will rise from the dead?

[Raycpa]

I’ll have mine in a cup with cherries and chocolate syrup.

[Steely Tom]

That thing is not much smaller than Mount Everest.

[going hot]

When dripping melting plastic into a bucket of water, I get similar shapes.

Wonder if this comet was not blasted off some planet via collision, went out into space and solidified, slowly falling into the sun, then slingshot back out, over and over.

[Patriot Babe]

The first picture look like a Turkey head with a large plump body for Thanksgiving.

[fwdude]

How does a comet differ from an asteroid, exactly?

[norwaypinesavage]

We are looking at Obama’s only legacy: a little landing craft, landing on a meaningless rock, in the vast nothingness of space, for no purpose but to create a meaningless legacy, sometime in the distant future.