Rosetta bound for outer Solar System after final Earth swingby

This morning, mission controllers confirmed that ESA?s comet chaser Rosetta had swung by Earth at 8:45 CET as planned, skimming past our planet to pick up a gravitational boost for an epic journey to rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014.

Link: http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Rosetta/SEMZC04VU1G_0.html

Time: 13. Nov. 2009

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Topics: earth, rosetta