http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993475
New target for comet-chasing mission identified Will Knight New Scientist March 3, 2003 The new target for the Rosetta comet-chasing mission has been identified, New Scientist can reveal. The European Space Agency (ESA) said at the time that it would delay the mission by two and a half years at most. Now, following months of calculations, the only target that can be reached within that timescale has emerged as 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko - nicknamed "Chury". "In the time span to mid-2005 there is nothing else," Gerhard Schwem, head of science for the Rosetta mission told New Scientist. "We are pretty confident with the studies we have done that going to Churyumov-Gerasimenko will be possible." Full story here: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993475 ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
