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REPLAYING: 25 years of comet science
from ESA/ESOC 15 June 16:30-17:30 CEST
 
A retrospective of ESA's historic Giotto mission with highlights of past comet science and featuring Rosetta and its ambitious goal to land on a comet in 2014.

Presenters include the ESA Director of Science and Robotic Exploration, Alvaro Gimenez, the ESA Director of Human Spaceflight and Operations, Thomas Reiter, former ESA Director of Science and Robotic Exploration, David Southwood, as well as leading Solar System and planetary scientists, including Roger Bonnet, Executive Director of the International Space Science Institute, Uwe Keller, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Gerhard Schwehm, ESA's Rosetta Mission Manager, Rita Schulz, ESA's Rosetta Project Scientist, and Anny-Chantal Levasseur-Regourd, Giotto OPE Principal Investigator from UPMC/CNRS, Paris.

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Landslide on Lutetia
Asteroid Lutetia: postcard from the past
 
27 October 2011   ESA's Rosetta spacecraft has revealed asteroid Lutetia to be a primitive body, left over as the planets were forming in our Solar System. Results from Rosetta's fleeting flyby also suggest that this mini-world tried to grow a metal heart.
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Comet Halley's nucleus as seen by Giotto
Giotto approach to Comet Halley
 
15 June 2011   Twenty-five years ago, ESA's Giotto probe swept within 600 km of Comet Halley, obtaining the first close-up images of a comet. It revealed the first evidence of organic material in a comet and, still today, much of what we know about comets comes from the pioneering mission.
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Rosetta spacecraft
Call for Media: Giotto and Rosetta – 25 years of comet science
 
9 June 2011   ESA PR 17 2011 Twenty-five years ago, ESA's Giotto spacecraft made its mark in deep space. Passing Halley’s comet at a distance of only 600 km, Giotto was the first mission to perform a close comet flyby.
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8 June 2011   Rosetta comet probe enters hibernation in deep space
3 June 2011   Rosetta to sleep through loneliest leg of comet mission
30 May 2011   Take part in ESA's Cool Comet Campaign
11 March 2011   ESA remembers the night of the comet
13 October 2010   When is a comet not a comet? Rosetta finds out
22 September 2010   ESA’s Rosetta comet-chaser goes LEGO®


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