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Stories about: Rosetta spacecraft

Rosetta Powers Up for Encounter with Mysterious Asteroid Europe's comet chaser, the Rosetta spacecraft, was powered up last week in anticipation for the fly-by around asteroid 2867 Steins scheduled to take place on September 5th, 2008. Rosetta was originally designed and launched in order to approach and study the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, with which the spacec... 7 July 2008 03:30 GMT