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SpaceRef - Exploration and Missions - Robotic Missions - Planetary Science - Rosetta

Microwave Instrument for the Rosetta Orbiter (MIRO) - MIRO is tbe Microwave Instrument for the Rosetta Orbiter, an instrument which will be used to measure the surface temperature gradient as a function of comet position, measure the outgassing of water, ammonia, carbon monoxide, and other gasses, and the temperature of the gasses in the coma. [NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory]

Rosetta - Rosetta will be launched in 2003 and will rendezvous with Comet Wirtanen and will then orbit it for the next two years. On its long journey it will also encounter a pair of asteroids (2006 and 2008). [European Space Agency]

Rosetta - ESA Mission to fly by asteroids Otawara and Siwa - Rosetta is an ESA Horizon 2000 cornerstone mission number 3 designed to rendezvous with comet 46 P/Wirtanen and perform remote sensing investigations as well as carrying a probe to land on the comet's surface and perform in situ measurements. Flybys of two asteroids, 4979 Otawara and 140 Siwa, on the way to the comet are also planned. NASA GSFC's National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC)