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INBOX ASTRONOMY: NEWS ALERT -- "HUBBLE ASSISTS ROSETTA COMET MISSION"
(STScI-PR03-26)

FOR RELEASE: 3:00 pm (EDT) September 5, 2003

CONTACT:
Michael Buckley
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD
(Phone: 443-778-7536)

Ray Villard
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD
(Phone: 410-338-4514)

Lars Christensen
Hubble European Space Agency Information Center, Garching, Germany
(Phone: 49-89-3200-6306)

PRESS RELEASE NO.: STScI-PR03-26

HUBBLE ASSISTS ROSETTA COMET MISSION

Results from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope played a major role in
preparing ESA's ambitious Rosetta mission for its new target, comet
67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P/C-G). For the first time in history,
Rosetta will land a probe on a comet and study its origin. Hubble
precisely measured the size, shape, and rotational period of comet
67P/C-G. The Hubble observations revealed comet 67P/C-G to be a
football-shaped object of approximately three miles by two miles in
size--large enough to provide a landing site for the Rosetta mission
probe.

Dr. Philippe Lamy of the Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale, France is
presenting the Hubble results on comet 67P/C-G today at the annual
meeting of the Division of Planetary Sciences of the American
Astronomical Society in Monterey, Calif.

The Hubble observing team members are P.L. Lamy and L. Jorda
(Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale, France), I. Toth (Konkoly
Observatory, Hungary), and H.A. Weaver (Johns Hopkins University Applied
Physics Laboratory). The movie simulation of the Hubble results is
provided by Mikko Kaasalainen (University of Helsinki, Finland) and
Pedro Gutierrez (Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale, France).

To see and read more, please click on
http://hubblesite.org/news/2003/26
http://www.jhuapl.edu/newscenter/pre...ases/2003.html
http://hubble.esa.int

The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) is operated by the
Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA), for
NASA, under contract with the Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt,
MD. The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation
between NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA).

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