CASSE--Acoustic Investigation of a Cometary Surface
Abstract
In 2003 the ESA Cornerstone Mission Rosetta will be launched for the first rendezvous maneuver with a cometary nucleus. The proposed target comet P/Wirtanen with a orbital period of 5.5 years will be reached on his way to the inner solar system at a distance of 5 AU. Out there, Rosetta will be inserted into an orbit around the cometary nucleus and, after doing first inspections, will deploy two landing devices, RoLand and Champollion.
- Publication:
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Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
- Pub Date:
- March 1996
- Bibcode:
- 1996LPI....27..703K
- Keywords:
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- COMETS;
- COMETS: SIMULATION;
- COMETS: SURFACE;
- ROLAND;
- ROSETTA