Why I'm Called - Churyumov-Gerasimenko Comet

I am Churyumov-Gerasimenko Comet.

I am a comet landed on by the Rosetta mission's Philae.

My name was given in 1969.

I was named by Klim Ivanovich Churyumov and Svetlana Ivanovna Gerasimenko.

My name came about when the comet was discovered by Klim Ivanovich Churyumov, who examined a photograph exposed for comet Comas Solà by Svetlana Ivanovna Gerasimenko on 11 September 1969. Churyumov found a cometary object near the edge of the plate, initially assuming I was Comas Solà, but later determined I was a different body.

My name is derived from the surnames of my discoverers, Klim Ivanovich Churyumov and Svetlana Ivanovna Gerasimenko, with no additional symbolic meaning.

An interesting fact is the Rosetta mission's lander, Philae, became the first spacecraft to land on a comet nucleus when it landed on 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko's surface on 12 November 2014.