An example of anthropomorphism in popular scoience writing:
"Not only did the scientists not want to risk damaging the orbiter with the impact of a fragment of high-velocity dust, but they also didn't want to risk flying Rosetta into a cloud of dusty debris that could potentially confuse its 'star-tracking' navigation system. Sun glinting off a piece of dust close to the orbiter can look uncannily like a far-off star. Rosetta uses the stars to figure out where it is located and if mistakes an errant piece of comet dust for a star then it will be utterly confused as to its location and could easily wander off into space or, worse, crash into the comet."
Natalie Starkey
Starkey, N. (2018). Catching Stardust. Comets, asteroids and the birth of the solar system. Bloomsbury Sigma.
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