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This book is humbly dedicated to Professor David W. Hughes,

who has inspired my interest in small solar system objects over many years, and to all the researchers, planners and engineers who made the European Space Agency’s Rosetta Mission to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko such a wonderful success.

“And a wayward comet was flashing there –

And he shone upon the sea;

Where a spectre-bark, like a thing of air,

Was moving wearily;

He shot away from sphere to sphere

With a strange and reckless speed;

With a flight of beauty – a flight of fear –

Where none had dared to lead;

And every ray from him that fell,

Went into the soul, like a secret spell.” [1]