67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko - Wikipedia
67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (abbreviated as 67P or 67P/C–G) is a Jupiter-family comet. [10] It is originally from the Kuiper belt [11] and has an orbital period of 6.45 years as of 2012, [1] a rotation period of approximately 12.4 hours, [9] and a maximum velocity of 135,000 km/h (38 km/s; 84,000 mph). [12]
67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko - NASA Science
2015年1月31日 · Comet 67P/ Churyumov-Gerasimenko made history as the first comet to be orbited and landed upon by robotic spacecraft from Earth. The Rosetta spacecraft, carrying the Philae lander, rendezvoused with this comet in August 2014, and escorted it on its journey to the inner solar system and back out again. Rosetta was a mission of the European Space ...
Heads up! Famous comet 67P/C-G nearly closest - EarthSky
2021年10月26日 · Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is gearing up for its closest approach to Earth on November 11 and 12, 2021. On October 26, the waning gibbous moon and the comet are in virtually the same...
ESA - Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko - European Space …
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. ESA's Rosetta mission chased down Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for ten years. The comet is a regular visitor to the inner Solar System, orbiting the Sun once every 6.5 years between the orbits of Jupiter and Earth.
Rosetta-Philae - NASA Science
2004年3月2日 · Rosetta was a European Space Agency (ESA) mission designed to rendezvous with Comet 67 P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, drop a probe (Philae) on the surface, study the comet from orbit, and fly by at least one asteroid en route.
The Many Faces of Rosetta's Comet 67P
2017年3月21日 · Images returned from the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission indicate that during its most recent trip through the inner solar system, the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was a very active place - full of growing fractures, collapsing cliffs and massive rolling boulders.
NASA's Kepler Gets the 'Big Picture' of Comet 67P - NASA
2016年10月7日 · From Sept. 7 through Sept. 20, the Kepler spacecraft, operating in its K2 mission, fixed its gaze on comet 67P. From the distant vantage point of Kepler, the spacecraft could observe the comet’s core and tail.
View Rosetta’s comet - European Space Agency
This interactive tool allows you to view Rosetta’s target comet (67P/C-G) from all angles. You can zoom in and out, pan across, and rotate the comet to explore its surface as seen by Rosetta’s navigation camera, NAVCAM.
Rosetta’s comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko sheds its dusty
2016年11月17日 · The Rosetta spacecraft has investigated comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from large heliocentric distances to its perihelion passage and beyond. We trace the seasonal and diurnal evolution of the colors of the 67P nucleus, finding changes driven by sublimation and recondensation of water ice.
ESA Science & Technology - Rosetta's target: comet 67P…
The favoured target for Rosetta was the periodic comet 46P/Wirtanen, but, after the launch was delayed, another regular visitor to the inner Solar System, 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, was selected as a suitable replacement.