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I'm saddened to have just heard the news that Svetlana Gerasimenko passed away last week, on 8 April.

She was the co-discoverer in 1969 of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko with fellow Ukrainian astronomer, Klim Churyumov (1937-2016).

This is the comet that was explored by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft from 2014-2016 & landed on by the Philae probe in November 2014.

A comet & events that changed my life 🙇♂️

Ad astra, Svetlana ✨

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