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Help Researchers Track Comet 67/P Through Perihelion
A recent Navcam montage of 67P as seen from Rosetta. Image credit: ESA
Calling all light-bucket scope owners: the folks at the European Space Agency want to enlist you in the quest to monitor Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from our Earthbound perspective through perihelion later this summer.
“We are looking to bring an entire community of professional and amateur observers together,” said Rosetta Coordinator of Amateur Observations for Comet 67/P C-G Padma A. Yanamandra-Fisher in a recent press release. “When else can you observe a comet at the same time a spacecraft is viewing it at close proximity and escorting it to perihelion, and be able to correlate both sets of findings?(…)
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Source: http://www.universetoday.com/119796/help-researchers-track-comet-67p-through-perihelion/
