Rosetta Flyby By Asteroid Lutetia

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The ESA spacecraft Rosetta is about 200,000km away from the asteroid Lutetia right now. In a few hours, it will be flying past at a distance of just 3,000km at an amazing 54,000km per hour - that's 15km every second. Already the powerful OSIRIS cameras are starting to make out surface features of the 100km wide asteroid, and both Orbiter and Lander are busy taking lots of science measurements.

Watch the ESA stream live, talking about this great event below...

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