On the Space.com site, the comet is being described as a "space peanut, " which seems accurate — although the comet's core also resembles a chicken leg or drumstick.
“It gives you a sense of the scale of what NASA does that our flight test rocket is larger than any other rocket in the world,” Ares I-X deputy mission manager Jon Cowart told SPACE.com.
'Most planetary scientists would not be surprised if the largest undiscovered companion was Neptune-sized or smaller, but a Jupiter-mass object would be a surprise, ' Matese told SPACE.com