Acetamide
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Acetamide is an organic compound with the formula CH3CONH2. It is an amide derived from ammonia and acetic acid. It finds some use as a plasticizer and as an industrial solvent. The related compound N
Structure of acetamide hydrogen-bonded dimer from X-ray crystallography. Selected distances: C-O: 1.243, C-N, 1.325, N---O, 2.925 Å. Color code: red = O, blue = N, gray = C, white = H.
67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
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67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko is a Jupiter-family comet. It is originally from the Kuiper belt and has an orbital period of 6.45 years as of 2012, a rotation period of approximately 12.4 hours, and a maxi
Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko in true colour, as seen by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft in December 2014
First image of comet taken by Rosetta on 21 March 2014, with Messier 107 in view
False-colour image of the comet outgassing, 15 April 2015
A reconstruction of the nucleus's shape based on Hubble observations in 2003