Europlanet Joins Swiss Space Area at Fantasy Basel
The space area at the 2024 edition of FANTASY BASEL, the Swiss Comic Con, had an exhibition and hands-on activities led by the Swiss Space Museum and its partners, including the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS and colleagues from Europlanet.
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This year, we asked again the important question: what do you think a comet smells like? Over the three days, we collected 328 creative responses to this question, and talked to up to 10,000 attendees on the stand overall.
Responses ranged from :
- Acacia honey
- Fresh rain
- A dusty cellar
- Dirt mixed with water
- Toilet cleaner
- Flowers
- Urine
- A mossy cave
- Old socks
- Burned rock with caramel
- Waste with mint
- Incense and sandalwood
- Holy somke1
- Bergamot
- Stone dust
- Skunk
- Sulfur and rose
- Fizzer sweets
- My cat after it went under the dusty bed
- Out of this world 😉
- Vick’s Vapo-Rub
- Rotten dust / feet
- Menthol
- Sandalwood
- Foul eggs
- Esoteric store
- Tiger balm
- Chalk
- The zoo
and many more!
Many thanks to the organisers for a fantastic event!