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Rosetta: As the comet particles analyzed

November 11, 2014 at 00:42 clock Updated GMT

With Rosetta orbiting Comet 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the scientists expect a lot of new information about these strange objects.

Previous research found that the comets are a mixture of ice and rock, and a theory is that it is water and carbon have been available on the early Earth.

A NASA mission called Stardust comet particles collected in 2004.

Science editor David Shukman reports a laboratory that the samples analyzed in Diamond Light Source near Oxford.

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