Scientist have found what a comet smells like – they said that it smells like a rotten egg and horse urine.
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According to the report, the research carried out by the group of scientists’ from University of Bern, in Switzerland, on 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet and they found the smell which was similar to rotten eggs, horse urine, formaldehyde, bitter almonds, alcohol, vinegar and a hint of sweet ether.
They explained that they found the smell by analyzing the chemicals in its coma, the fuzzy head surrounding the nucleus of comet.
However, they cleared “they can’t say about other comets – but they are sure about the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet”.
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