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Rosetta Radio Science Investigations: Gravity Investigations at Comet P/Wirtanen

  • M. Pätzold (a1), F.M. Neubauer (a1), A. Wennmacher (a1), K. Aksnes (a2), J.D. Anderson (a3), S.W. Asmar (a3), M. Tinto (a3), B.T. Tsurutani (a3), D.K. Yeomans (a3), J.-P. Barriot (a4), M.K. Bird (a5), H. Boehnhardt (a6), E. Gill (a7), O. Montenbruck (a7), E. Grün (a8), B. Häusler (a9), W.H. Ip (a10), N. Thomas (a10), E. A. Marouf (a11), H. Rickman (a12), M.K. Wallis (a13) and N.C. Wickramasinghe (a13)...
Abstract

The Rosetta Radio Science Investigations (RSI) experiment was selected by the European Space Agency to be included in the International Rosetta Mission to comet P/Wirtanen (launch in 2003, arrival and operational phase at the comet 2011–2013). The RSI science objectives address fundamental aspects of cometary physics such as the mass and bulk density of the nucleus, the gravity field, non-gravitational forces, the size and shape, the internal structure, the composition and roughness of the nucleus surface, the abundance of large dust grains and the plasma content in the coma and the combined dust and gas mass flux on the orbiter. RSI will make use of the radio subsystem of the Rosetta spacecraft.

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