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Rosetta spacecraft meets asteroid Steins
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 25, 2008 |
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ESA's Rosetta spacecraft will make a historic encounter with asteroid (2867) Steins on 5 September 2008.
Rosetta starts tracking asteroid Steins
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Aug 04, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Heading toward its first target-asteroid, (2867) Steins, ESA's Rosetta spacecraft has started using its cameras to visually track the asteroid and eventually determine its orbit with more ...
Perfect sight: Rosetta cameras track asteroid target
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- On 14 August, Rosetta conducted a successful trajectory correction manoeuvre using data obtained from the Agency's first-ever optical tracking of an asteroid target, (2867) Steins. Images ...
Rosetta obtains 'light curve' of asteroid Steins
Mar 20, 2007 |
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During the very first observations of Rosetta’s flyby target 2867-Steins in March 2006 the onboard camera OSIRIS obtained the most accurate ‘light curve’ of this asteroid so far.
Steins: A diamond in the sky
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Sep 08, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The first images from Rosetta's OSIRIS imaging system and VIRTIS infrared spectrometer were derived from raw data this morning and have delivered spectacular results.
Lutetia asteroid in Rosetta's spotlight
Jan 26, 2007 |
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Earlier this month ESA's Rosetta had a first look at asteroid 21-Lutetia, one of the targets of its long mission. The onboard camera OSIRIS imaged the asteroid passing through its field of view during the spacecraft's ...
Rosetta sees a living planet
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Images and data taken just before closest approach were downloaded this morning, and they show the lights of North America in the night and a glowing Southern Hemisphere.
Boosting the accuracy of Rosetta's Earth approach
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 19, 2007 |
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Yesterday, 18 October at 18:06 CEST, the thrusters of ESA’s comet chaser, Rosetta, were fired in a planned, 42-second trajectory correction manoeuvre designed to 'fine tune' the spacecraft's approach to Earth. ...
Rosetta closes in on Earth -- a second time
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 08, 2007 |
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ESA’s comet chaser, Rosetta, is on its way to its second close encounter with Earth on 13 November. The spacecraft’s operators are leaving no stones unturned to make sure Earth’s gravity gives it the exact ...
Rosetta gets first glimpse of Deep Impact target
Jun 30, 2005 |
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ESA’s Rosetta comet-chaser spacecraft has acquired its first view of the Deep Impact target, Comet 9P/Tempel 1. This first Rosetta image of the Deep Impact campaign was taken by its Navigation Camera (NAVCAM) bet ...
ESA's comet chaser to fly by Earth
Feb 23, 2005 |
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ESA's comet-chaser Rosetta will make a fly-by of planet Earth on 4 March 2005, and sky watchers should be able to see it with telescopes or binoculars if the sky is clear! Rosetta is approaching Earth from an ...
UK scientists set to glimpse Rosetta as it swings by Earth
Mar 03, 2005 |
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One year into its twelve year journey to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta mission will make a “close” flyby of Earth on Friday 4th March. UK scientists involved in ...
Asteroids: Treasures of the past and a threat to the future
Apr 03, 2006 |
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If a large asteroid such as the recently identified 2004 VD17 – about 500 m in diameter with a mass of nearly 1000 million tonnes - collides with the Earth it could spell disaster for much of our planet. As ...
