Man's comet connection is out of this world

By Jessie Le Fevre University Journalism Student
Updated August 6 2014 - 2:26pm, first published August 5 2014 - 9:38pm
QVMAG astronomer Martin George with a picture of the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Ukrainian Klim Churyumov - one of two discoverers of the comet - is a colleague of Mr George. Picture: GEOFF ROBSON
QVMAG astronomer Martin George with a picture of the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Ukrainian Klim Churyumov - one of two discoverers of the comet - is a colleague of Mr George. Picture: GEOFF ROBSON

IT MIGHT be 400 million kilometres from earth, but Launceston astronomer Martin George has close links with a Ukranian-discovered comet.

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