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Rosetta bound for outer Solar System after final Earth swingby

Submit on Saturday, November 14th, 2009 05:58

Mission controllers confirmed that ESA’s comet chaser Rosetta had swung by Earth at 0745 UTC as planned, skimming past our planet to pick up a gravitational boost for the journey to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014.

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