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Letter: For the record

Published 15 July 2015

• Comet again? Cinzia Fantinati is the German Aerospace Centre’s operations manager for the comet lander, Philae (27 June, p 25). The European Space Agency controls the Rosetta mothership.

• Our focus may have slipped in our illustration of the orbits of Pluto and other planets (13 June, p 30). The sun should have been more clearly at one of the foci of each of the elliptical orbits; and in each orbit Pluto comes inside the orbit of Neptune only once.

Issue no. 3030 published 18 July 2015

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