Rosetta Goes to Comet Wirtanen

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Oct 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999ssrv...90..313s&link_type=abstract

Space Science Reviews, v. 90, Issue 1/2, p. 313-319 (1999).

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Rosetta

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The International Rosetta Mission, approved by the Science Programme Committee of the European Space Agency as the Planetary Cornerstone Mission in ESA's long-term programme Horizon 2000, will rendezvous in 2011 with Comet 46P/Wirtanen close to its aphelion and will study the nucleus and the evolution of the coma for almost two years until it reaches perihelion. In addition to the investigations performed by the scientific instruments on board the orbiter, a Surface Science Package (Rosetta Lander) will be deployed onto the surface of the nucleus early during the near-nucleus study phase. On its way to Comet 46P/Wirtanen, Rosetta will fly by and study the two asteroids 4979 Otawara and 140 Siwa.

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