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Rosetta awakes from hibernation for asteroid encounter

Spacecraft controllers have just awoken Rosetta from hibernation to prepare for its encounter with asteroid (2867) Steins on 5 September. ESA's comet chaser will study the relatively rare asteroid as it flies by on its way to comet 67/P Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

Rosetta awakes from hibernation for asteroid

Spacecraft controllers have just awoken Rosetta from hibernation to prepare for its encounter with asteroid (2867) Steins on 5 September. ESA's comet chaser will study the relatively rare asteroid as it flies by on its way to comet 67/P Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

Rosetta awakes from hibernation for asteroid encounter

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Rosetta Prepares for Asteroid Encounter

Spacecraft controllers have just awoken Rosetta from hibernation to prepare for its encounter with asteroid (2867) Steins on September 5. ESA’s comet chaser will study the relatively rare asteroid as it flies by on its way to comet 67/P Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

Rosetta Begins Tracking Asteroid Steins for Flyby

Since waking up in early July from a brief hibernation, the Rosetta space probe has passed yet another milestone on the long journey to its rendezvous with the comet 67/P Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014: it has begun tracking the asteroid (2867) Steins. The spacecraft will perform a close flyby of the asteroid on September 5th, 2008, and will spend the next month taking images and science data.

ESA?s Rosetta starts tracking asteroid Steins

ESA’s Rosetta starts tracking asteroid SteinsParis, August 5 : ESA’s (European Space Agency’s) Rosetta spacecraft has started using its cameras to visually track asteroid Steins and eventually determine its orbit with more accuracy.

Rosetta awakes from hibernation for asteroid encounter

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Rosetta starts tracking asteroid Steins

Heading toward its first target-asteroid, (2867) Steins, ESA's Rosetta spacecraft has started using its cameras to visually track the asteroid and eventually determine its orbit with more accuracy.

Perfect sight: Rosetta cameras track asteroid target

On 14 August, Rosetta conducted a successful trajectory correction manoeuvre using data obtained from the Agency's first-ever optical tracking of an asteroid target, (2867) Steins. Images from the spacecraft's cameras were used to calculate the asteroid's location and optimise its trajectory for fly-by next month.

Gravity Tractor Could Deflect Asteroids

Hugh Pickens writes "A new study at the Jet Propulsion Labs shows that weak gravitational pull of a "gravity tractor" could deflect an Earth-threatening asteroid if it was deployed when the asteroid was at least one orbit away from potential impact with Earth. First a spacecraft would be crashed directly into the asteroid, similar to the Deep Impact mission that impacted a comet in 2005. This would provide a big change of direction, but in a less controllable fashion that could push the path of the asteroid into a dangerous keyhole. But then a second spacecraft, the gravity tractor, would come into play, hovering about 150 meters away from the asteroid, to exert a gentle gravitational force, changing the asteroid's velocity by only 0.22 microns per second each day.

Binary Asteroid Glides Past Earth

A rare event has given astronomers a great view of a binary asteroid system. Tonight, asteroid 2008 BT18 passed 1.4 million miles from Earth, shining like a 13th magnitude star. Before July 7th, astronomers believed 2008 BT18 was "just another" near-Earth asteroid, but then the Arecibo radio telescope obtained a "delay-Doppler" image of the asteroid and found it in fact had a binary partner. Although binaries are fairly common in the Solar System, this was a rare opportunity for a ground-based telescope to capture such a clear view…

Rosetta spacecraft meets asteroid Steins

ESA PR 35-2008. ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft will make a historic encounter with asteroid (2867) Steins on 5 September 2008. The doors of ESA’s European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany, will be open to the media as of 18:00 on 5 September to follow the fly-by events.

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Rosetta - the comet chaser. An artist's depiction of Rosetta's arrival at its comet destination. Credit: ESA

ESA's Rosetta starts tracking asteroid Steins

ESA's (European Space Agency's) Rosetta spacecraft has started using its cameras to visually track asteroid Steins and eventually determine its orbit with more accuracy.

Perfect sight: Rosetta cameras track asteroid target

Asteroid Steins is the tiny white dot in the centre of the two concentric circles as seen by Rosettas Navigation Camera A in the morning of 4 August when the spacecraft was approximately 24 mn kms from Steins this was only the first in a series of st ...

Intense preparations for Rosetta's asteroid visit

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Rosetta Stone(R) Names GlobalCollect its Preferred Global E-commerce Payment Service Provider

Rosetta Stone Inc., the leading provider of language-learning software, has chosen GlobalCollect as the preferred payment service provider for its e-commerce transactions. Since 2007, GlobalCollect has successfully facilitated payment processing for both the Rosetta Stone European and Japanese e-commerce activities. Under the expanded partnership www.RosettaStone.com, the flagship website, will be added. Across all sites, customers can chose from an array of payment methods.

Rosetta Stone(R) Names GlobalCollect its Preferred Global E-commerce Payment Service Provider

Rosetta Stone Inc., the leading provider of language-learning software, has chosen GlobalCollect as the preferred payment service provider for its e-commerce transactions. Since 2007, GlobalCollect has successfully facilitated payment processing for both the Rosetta Stone European and Japanese e-commerce activities. Under the expanded partnership www.RosettaStone.com, the flagship website, will be added. Across all sites, customers can chose from an array of payment methods.

Rosetta Stone(R) Names GlobalCollect its Preferred Global E-commerce Payment Service Provider

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands (Business Wire) -- Rosetta Stone Inc., the leading provider of language-learning software, has chosen GlobalCollect as the preferred payment service provider for its e-commerce transactions. Since 2007, GlobalCollect has successfully facilitated payment processing for both the Rosetta Stone European and Japanese e-commerce activities. Under the expanded partnership www.RosettaStone.com, the flagship website, will be added. Across all sites, customers can chose from an array of payment methods.

Asteroid Apophis may hit the Earth in 2036 - astronomer

ST. PETERSBURG. June 30 (Interfax) - The asteroid Apophis may hit planet Earth in 2036, Director of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Applied Astronomy Institute Andrei Filkenstein told the media on Monday. "Apophis will reach the orbit of geostationary satellites in 2029. It may hit Earth later, as it makes a number of revolutions," he said. "It is highly probable that the asteroid will hit the Earth in 2036 if its trajectory passes through a 1.5-kilometer 'gate'," he said. There is no way to stave off this danger so far, but scientists have suggested a number of worthy ideas, the astronomer said. te md

Rosetta Disk Designed For 2,000 Years Archive

Hugh Pickens writes "Kevin Kelly has an interesting post about an archive designed with an estimated lifespan of 2,000 -10,000 years to serve future generations as a modern Rosetta Stone. The Rosetta disk contains analog 'human-readable' scans of scripts, text, and diagrams using nickel deposited on an etched silicon disk and includes 15,000 microetched pages of language documentation in 1,500 different languages, including versions of Genesis 1-3, a universal list of the words common for each language, and pronunciation guides. Produced by the Long Now Foundation, the plan is to replicate the disk promiscuously and distribute them around the world in nondescript locations so at least one will survive their 2,000-year lifespan. 'This is one of the most fascinating objects on earth,' says Oliver Wilke.

Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (N.E.A.R) Shoemaker - Spacecraft, USA

The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) was designed to study the near Earth asteroid Eros from close orbit over a period of a year, and was successfully launched in February 1996.

ESA spacecraft tracks target asteroid

The European Space Agency says its Rosetta spacecraft has started visually tracking its first target asteroid to determine its orbit with more accuracy.

IAU Names Asteroid 168126 Chengbruce after Taiwanese Entrepreneur Bruce C.H. Cheng

Bruce C.H. Cheng, founder and chairman of Delta Electronics Inc. (TSE:2308), has been a long-time supporter of energy conservation, reducing carbon emissions and caring for the earth. He now has a new partner in the stars. The Committee on Small Body Nomenclature (CSBN) of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) recently approved the name of “Chengbruce” for asteroid 168126. The asteroid was discovered by the Lulin Observatory at the National Central University and its new official name honors Cheng’s efforts in pursuing environmental sustainability and green citizenship.

IAU Names Asteroid 168126 "Chengbruce" after Taiwanese Entrepreneur Bruce C.H. Cheng

Bruce C.H. Cheng, founder and chairman of Delta Electronics Inc. (TSE:2308), has been a long-time supporter of energy conservation, reducing carbon emissions and caring for the earth. He now has a new partner in the stars. The Committee on Small Body Nomenclature (CSBN) of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) recently approved the name of "Chengbruce" for asteroid 168126. The asteroid was discovered by the Lulin Observatory at the National Central University and its new official name honors Cheng's efforts in pursuing environmental sustainability and green citizenship.

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