Asteroid 'is actually spacecraft'
A supposed asteroid, which it was feared was going to have a near-miss with Earth next week, has been identified as a spacecraft.
Professor Alan Fitzsimmons of Queen's University Astrophysics Research Centre told the BBC there is "no longer any need for concern".

"The 'asteroid' has been identified as the European spacecraft Rosetta," he said.

The spacecraft is en route to a comet near Jupiter.

Earlier this year, the unmanned Rosetta craft, which has already flown past Earth once, passed within 250 km (150 miles) of Mars.

In a precise move, the probe used the planet's gravity to change course on its voyage to the Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet.



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Published: 2007/11/10 14:38:56 GMT

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Never really thought of R@home being a galactic thing, but what the heck... Hehe.

Seriously though, asteroids hitting the ground, eventually gunna happen. Just a matter of when. Hopefully, the next asteroid that hits will either be nothing more than a "dirty snowball" or occur when nobody cares (ie. about a billion years from now).

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There are 10 types of people in the world:
Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

I am on a short visit back to my old city and i saw in the airports Rosetta stone translation software. seem slike a common name these days

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