ESA's comet mission passes Earth

摘要

European mission controllers confirmed that ESA's comet chaser Rosetta had swung by Earth at 8:45 CET as planned on 13 November 2009, skimming past the planet to pick up a gravitational boost for an epic journey to rendezvous with comet 67P/rnChuryumov-Gerasimenko in 2014.