"The ESA Rosetta Mission and Observations of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko"

Date: 
Monday, June 16, 2014 - 11:00
Location: 
AURA Lecture Hall
Speaker: 
COLIN SNODGRASS, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research and Gemini South Visiting Astronomer
Talk Abstract: 

I will introduce the ESA Rosetta mission, currently approaching comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, and the campaign of ground based observations in support of it. I will present our predictions on what we expect to see in the next years, and what observations are planned. I will also show some early results from 2014, and briefly discuss what the mission and campaign can tell us about comets in general.