European Spacecraft Has Weekend Date With Asteroid

Friday, July 9, 2010 - 15:49 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A comet-chasing European space probe has a blind date with an asteroid on Saturday and will snap the first ever up-close photos of the space rock in a landmark flyby.

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