The Rosetta spacecraft is "on course" to fly-by asteroid Steins at a distance of just 800km and take...

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As the Rosetta spacecraft closes in on asteroid Steins the science instruments are prepared for this extraordinary opportunity to study a rare, E-type asteroid. Final orbit trajectory corrections have been performed and the spacecraft is now on...
Artist's impression of the European Space Agency (ESA) probe Rosetta ©AFP/File - C.Carreau PARIS (AFP) - Far from Earth, a robot spacecraft has been prodded from deep slumber to make a rare encounter with an asteroid, the intriguing orbital debris...
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