Rosetta bound for outer Solar System after final Earth swingby
Thursday, December 3, 2009 - 09:21
in Astronomy & Space
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.