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As a part of ESA’s cornerstone mission “ROSETTA” to comet 46P/Wirtanen a 100 kg Lander will bring a scientific payload of almost 27 kg to the surface of the nucleus. After a first scientific sequence it will operate for a considerable fraction of the cometary orbit around the sun (between 3 AU and 2 AU). Ten experiments with a number of sub-experiments are foreseen; this paper presents the current status of the Lander development and reviews the scientific capabilities of each of the experiments at a time when the Flight Model (FM) of the Lander is already delivered.
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Biele, J. (2002). The Experiments Onboard the Rosetta Lander. In: Boehnhardt, H., Combi, M., Kidger, M.R., Schulz, R. (eds) Cometary Science after Hale-Bopp. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1088-6_45
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