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kleinbl00  ·  3672 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Philae has landed! (We landed on a comet. +1 for humans)

I love that the peculiarities of science nomenclature allow us to name a boulder Cheops, allow us to name a plain Agilkea, but require us to call the comet "67P."