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To: ManyMoose who wrote (4970)	10/17/2008 6:37:46 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (2) of 5290

Rosetta Flies By "Something" Very Strange .... By Richard C. Hoagland © 2008 The Enterprise Mission The evening of September 5, 2008, ESA (the European Space Agency) successfully flew its unmanned "Rosetta" spacecraft within 500-miles of a tiny (~ 3 miles across), newly-discovered (1969) asteroid, known as "2867 Steins." The diminutive asteroid was not the prime objective of Rosetta's eleven-year projected Mission ... but only an interim "port of call" (one of two asteroid fly-bys on Rosetta's highly involved itinerary - see below). The real objective of the 3-ton European spacecraft, launched in 2004, is an unprecedented deep space chase -- involving three repeated encounters with the Earth, one of Mars ... and the two aforementioned asteroid fly-bys ... all carried out enroute to the ultimate target of the Mission-- The eventual rendezvous (and orbit, with touchdown of another small, sub-spacecraft -- called "Philae") ... of a small periodic comet orbiting the Sun in a 6.6-year, highly elliptical orbit (German diagram - below) -- Comet 67P/Churyumov- Gerasimenko-- Said rendezvous to be achieved in ... 2014. enterprisemission.com

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