Open AccessCometary science at the launch of Rosetta
Author(s) -
BarberWodarg Simeon,
Jones Geraint
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
astronomy & geophysics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.168
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1468-4004
pISSN - 1366-8781
DOI - 10.1046/j.1468-4004.2003.44234.x
Subject(s) - astrobiology , aeronautics , astronomy , aerospace engineering , physics , engineering
The launch of ESA's Rosetta mission, to orbit and land on a comet, has been postponed and the target of the mission may have to change. Uncertainty over the mission provoked extra interest at the RAS discussion meeting in December 2002, as Geraint Jones and Simeon Barber report.