The Rosetta Probe detects a mysterious moon spinning around a comet in space

Images taken with the Rosetta satellite of the European Space Agency showed a small moon orbiting the comet "Shurimov Girazimenko P67".

According to the website of the new atlas devoted to scientific and technological news, the comparison made by scientists of recent images and those taken four years ago, when the comet was closer to the sun, shows a "strange debris of orbital debris" of a diameter of about 4 Meters and revolves around the comet so that it looks like a moon.

The site, which was informally decided to call it "Churymoon", is now the subject of a detailed study and the computer models on which it was based initially suggest that it left the comet (67P / CG) and spent the first 12 hours of his separation. In a circular path 2.4 to 3.9 km from the comet's central point, the comet will be seen farther away from the opposite side, which means that it continued to circle the comet until it stopped. As of October 23, 2015. Churymoon is thought to be the largest debris ever seen since The Probe reached the comet's orbit in 2014.

Although the mission of the Rosetta spacecraft ended on September 30, 2016, the vast mine of data and information returned by the expedition is not yet complete and some of these data was not expected at all, including a series of photos taken. When the camera approached the comet (67P / CG) at the end of July and August 2015, when the comet was at its closest point to the sun, it was more active because the heat and sunlight allowed the layer of ice beneath the surface of the comet to transform. The gas was released with clouds of dust and debris and large parts mixed with dust piles.

The Rosetta spacecraft was launched by the European Space Agency in 2004 to explore the comet.