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At the end of the year 2014 the Rosetta Lander will be ejected from the Rosetta orbiter and, after a descent time of about half an hour, touch the surface of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the selected new mission target comet. This comet has a radius of about 2 km. The Lander impact velocity is increased as compared to the former mission target, 46P/Wirtanen, from about 0.5 m/s to 1.2 m/s. The 3-D simulations of the Lander touch-down on the comet surface are carried out in the frame of a multibody analysis and the new landing scenario with the higher impact velocity is analysed.
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Hilchenbach, M., Rosenbauer, H., Chares, B. (2004). First Contact with a Comet Surface: Rosetta Lander Simulations. In: Colangeli, L., Epifani, E.M., Palumbo, P. (eds) The New Rosetta Targets. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 311. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2573-0_27
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