Rosetta completes close encounter with asteroid
Scientists are beginning to cull information from a small asteroid, 2867 Steins, following a close flyby by Europe’s Rosetta comet chaser on Sept. 5 that brought the probe to within 800 kilometers (500 miles) of its target object and allowed it to be viewed with its Osiris wide-angle optical camera...
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