Rosetta's target

From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Fri Feb 14 2003 - 10:14:34 MST

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    old (sad) news:

    http://sci.esa.int/content/news/index.cfm?aid=13&cid=36&oid=31326(2
    "Although Rosetta will no longer meet Comet Wirtanen, it will
    rendezvous with a new comet that will soon become as well-known
    to the European comet-chasing community as the name Wirtanen is now."

    new news:

    target comet
    Comet P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
    http://www.bdl.fr/ephem/comets/HTML/english/CIA0029.html

    for a Rosetta launch about one year from now.

    ...larger comet, much more active, longer orbit. I don't envy the
    lander scientists who have not had time yet to see if their
    module can work on this new comet. All of the Rosetta instruments
    have this dilemma, in fact, but, for the Lander, the task is
    particularly daunting.

    instruments
    http://spdext.estec.esa.nl/content/doc/e5/2277_.htm

    Amara 

    -- 
Amara Graps, PhD
Istituto di Fisica delle Spazio Interplanetario (IFSI)
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Roma, ITALIA
Amara.Graps@ifsi.rm.cnr.it

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