HomeRosetta's back in the spotlight!
On Friday, 13 November, 2009, at 07:46 UT, ESA's Rosetta satellite will make her third (and final) swing-by of Earth, picking up a gravity assist from our bulky home planet and altering trajectory as she enters the next stages of the 10-year journey to Comet 67 P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
The ESA Flight Dynamics team have predicted Rosetta's altitude at the point of closest approach (perigee height) on 13 November to be 2481 km, slightly higher than her first swing-by in March 2005 (1954 km) and lower than her second swing-by on 13 November 2007 (5295 km). We'll update this figure as we get closer to the swing-by date itself...
The geographical point of closest approach (the point on the Earth's surface over which she'll make closest approach) is 109°E and 8°S - just off the coast of the Indonesian island of Java.
Rosetta Earth Swing-by 13.11.2009 07:46 UT - Point of closest approach @ 2481 km altitude
16-10-2009 • 23:34:13
Este satelite está siendo impulsado por la gravedad terrestre ; en su tercera y última vuelta saldra impulsado hacia el espacio , para encontrarse con el cometa P-67, un viaje que durara 10 años , recogera datos numericos , para enviarlos a la tierra procesarlos , obteniendo una información de imagen tridimensional del cometa , elemtos que lo forman , temperatura , velocidad , posible trayectoria, etc...
Es un trabajo de personas muy especializadas no solo al servicio de su empresa , también a todas las personas del mundo .
16-10-2009 • 18:20:12
Can you put some info, e.g., from which places on Earth it will be visible and what will be its brightness? I assume it will be visible for the naked eye?