Christopher Becke , a eminent schooltime aperient teacher , made thisoutstanding sizing comparisonshowing what the Comet 67P / Churyumov – Gerasimenko would await like next to famous spacecrafts from science fabrication . His image show the comet next to ships from Star Trek , Star Wars , Firefly and Battlestar Galactica .
And the comet is so small ! Or I guess , peradventure our imagined sci - fi space ships are too big ? Either room , it ’s still so very impressive that the ESA was able to shoot down a robot on that rock .
All of the images above were made byChristopher Becke . you could also see more size compare he made at his websitehere .
Additionally , the ESA equate the size of the comet to various European cities too :
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