Rosetta Spacecraft On Its Way To Meet Asteroid Steins
Sunday, August 31, 2008 - 10:22
in Astronomy & Space
ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft will make a historic encounter with asteroid (2867) Steins on 5 September 2008. The spacecraft will rendezvous with the asteroid in the course of its first incursion into the asteroid belt located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, while on its way to comet 67/P Churyumov-Gerasimenko.