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Brooklyn’s New Comet Splashes Down

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The 2014 World Science Festival kicks off with a truly flashy arrival: a model comet on display in Brooklyn Bridge Park.

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The Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Visual Strategy Studio partnered with US Rosetta Mission at JPL, StudioKCA architect Jason Klimoski and the World Science Festival to create the comet, which is 9 feet high by 12 feet long, made of steel, and exudes a fine mist to mimic the comet’s tail.

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The display is a 1:1000 scale model of the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (Comet C-G for short), which the Rosetta spacecraft expects to rendezvous with later this year.

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Experts will show you how to make a “kitchen comet” with dry ice, dirt, soy sauce, baking soda, and more!

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Scientists will also be on hand to help explain the theory that all the water on Earth may have come here on the backs of comets.

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If you’d like to visit the comet, it will be installed in Brooklyn Bridge Park through Sunday afternoon. Check the World Science Festival events page for specific programming times.

Photo Credit: Greg Kessler

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  1. Siniful says

    lovingviolence Only flaw in this plan: my family is already plotting to get Korean BBQ in NJ on Sunday. *woe*

  2. Siniful says

    dizzyswank I am thinking of stopping by REALLY early (or terribly late, depending on perspective) on Saturday morning.

  3. dizzyswank says

    Siniful ug, I’m not sure I can abide “really early”… I don’t do early on the weekends if I can help it. ;)

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