Rosetta spacecraft meets asteroid Steins

Wednesday, July 22, 2009 - 04:28 in Astronomy & Space

ESA PR 35-2008. ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft will make a historic encounter with asteroid (2867) Steins on 5 September 2008. The doors of ESA’s European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany, will be open to the media as of 18:00 on 5 September to follow the fly-by events.

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