Last visit home for ESA’s comet chaser
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - 09:49
in Astronomy & Space
ESA’s Rosetta comet chaser will swing by Earth on 13 November to pick up orbital energy and begin the final leg of its 10-year journey to the outer Solar System. Several observations of the Earth–Moon system are planned before the spacecraft heads out to study comet 67/P Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
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