Chasing a comet from Earth – update on the professional observing campaign
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/07/24/chasing-a-comet-from-earth-update-on-the-professional-observing-campaign
An interview with Colin Snodgrass of the Open University, UK, who coordinates a consortium of professional astronomers observing #Comet_67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from Earth in support of the Rosetta mission. Q: Rosetta has been ’living’ with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for almost a year now. How was this year from the perspective of the professional astronomers observing the comet with telescopes on Earth? A: It has been a very exciting year for everyone in comet science, following the results from Rosetta, but thankfully the ground-based view of 67P didn’t get too exciting yet – the comet largely followed our predictions in terms of its total brightness, which is reassuring as it allows us to have confidence in our plans for observing (and for Rosetta). We watched the comet grow (...)
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