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Rosetta—one comet rendezvous and two asteroid fly-bys
DOI: 10.1134/S0038094609040091 Bibcode: 2009SoSyR..43..343S

Schulz, R.

One of the two planetary cornerstone missions of the European Space Agency is the Rosetta mission to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Rosetta is a rendezvous mission with a comet nucleus, which combines an Orbiter with a Lander. It will monitor the evolution of the comet nucleus and the coma as a function of increasing and decreasing solar flux in…

2009 Solar System Research
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