What's the point of this? Why are we spending Millions - if not, Billions - on this project? I see absolutely no scientific benefit from this project.
It's fer the chillldrun?
I dunno - I guess someone somewhere feels compelled to waste more taxpayer dollars on foolish things.
"Astronomers believe comets' interiors have undergone little change since then and contain the pristine ice, gases, dust and other materials from which the rest of the solar system formed. Understanding comets is a way of understanding how the solar system was born.
"Another reason to study comets is that they, along with rocky asteroids, pose a threat of hitting the Earth and causing cataclysmic damage. Defending against such possibilities requires knowing more about these objects in hopes of deflecting or destroying dangerous ones, experts say."