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Bizarrely, Rosetta's comet makes for the perfect accompanist to classical music

Earlier this week, we reported that the European Space Agency had released the mysterious music p...
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15.40 14 Nov 2014


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Bizarrely, Rosetta's comet makes for the perfect accompanist to classical music

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Earlier this week, we reported that the European Space Agency had released the mysterious music produced by the Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet - uploaded to ESA's SoundCloud account, and there for anyone to play around with. 

Well it seems the Russian-named comet is a fan of Russian classical music, and its song - a sub human-hearing oscillation of particles due to magnetic fields - matches up with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of The Bumblebee better than any astro-physicist could ever imagine.

Listen to the three-kilometer wide hunk of rock float like an insect in this out-of-this-world mash-up:

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