A spacecraft that has visited an asteroid, comet or dwarf planet
Our answer book holds 25 answers to “A spacecraft that has visited an asteroid, comet or dwarf planet”, from the first thing anyone would say to names almost nobody would think of. The answers that come to mind first are Rosetta, Philae and Hayabusa. They count, but they keep you close to the ground. It is a fairly short list: only 5 answers sit in the two rarest tiers, so reaching one takes real knowledge.
Astronomers name far more things than the news ever mentions, which leaves plenty of room above the crowd. You will find it in stage 49, “Rock Hounds”, of the Cosmos mission. The first stages of every mission are free, and later stages come with the full mission.
PLAY ONLYCLICK FREEThe most common answers
EVERYONE- Rosetta
- Philae
- Hayabusa
- Hayabusa2
- OSIRIS-REx
- Giotto
- Dawn
- NEAR Shoemaker
- DART
- Deep Impact
These are the 10 answers we rate as most common, out of the 25 we know. They score the least. The other 15, including every rare one, stay inside the game.
How the 25 answers are spread
| EVERYONE | 4 |
| THE CROWD | 8 |
| SOME | 4 |
| A FEW | 4 |
| ALMOST NOBODY | 2 |
| ONLY YOU | 3 |
The rarer your answer, the farther your rocket flies. Rarity is our own estimate of how few people would think of an answer. How to play.