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The International Rosetta Mission was approved in November 1993 by ESA’s Science Programme Committee as the Planetary Cornerstone Mission in ESA’s long-term programme Horizon 2000. The mission goal is a rendez-vous with comet 46 P/Wirtanen. A subsidiary aim is the study of two asteroids during close fly-bys en route to the comet.
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Schwehm, G.H., Schulz, R. (1999). The International Rosetta Mission. In: Ehrenfreund, P., Krafft, C., Kochan, H., Pirronello, V. (eds) Laboratory Astrophysics and Space Research. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 236. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4728-6_22
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