Rosetta Bound For Outer Solar System After Final Earth Swingby
Friday, November 13, 2009 - 11:35
in Astronomy & Space
This morning, mission controllers confirmed that ESA's comet chaser Rosetta had swung by Earth at 8:45 CET as planned, skimming past our planet to pick up a gravitational boost for an epic journey to rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014.