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Nov 4, 2010

Probe sweeps past 'space peanut'

Hartley
By Jonathan Amos,Science correspondent, BBC News
The first pictures to show good detail of the nucleus were taken by the medium resolution camera
Nasa's Deep Impact probe has flown by Comet Hartley 2.
The first pictures revealed a roughly 1.5km-long, peanut-shaped object with jets of gas streaming from its surface.

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