ESA Gives Green Light To Rosetta

JoeRobe writes "An ESA review board has given the green light for launch of the Rosetta Spacecraft in January 2003. The Rosetta Mission is one of the ESA's boldest missions to date. Over the next eight years, the spacecraft will conduct two asteroid (Otawara and Siwa) flybys and finish off by dropping a lander onto the surface of comet Wirtanen."

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Change in mass

[yoinkslap]

what kind of implications will landing this on the comet have? will it affect the comets orbit? yea, its not a huge change in mass by any means, but it doesnt have to be out in space!