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    Notes to editors
    Ocean-like water in the Jupiter-family comet 103P/Hartley 2 by Paul Hartogh et al. is published online today DOI: 10.1038/nature10519
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature10519.

    Herschel studied comet Hartley on 17 November 2010 using the Heterodyne Instrument for the Far Infrared (HIFI).

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