Cometary science after Rosetta

Geraint H Jones; Matthew M Knight; Alan Fitzsimmons; Matt G G T Taylor

doi:10.1098/rsta.2017.0001

Cometary science after Rosetta

Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci. 2017 Jul 13;375(2097):20170001. doi: 10.1098/rsta.2017.0001.

Authors

Geraint H Jones^{1

2}, Matthew M Knight³, Alan Fitzsimmons⁴, Matt G G T Taylor⁵

Affiliations

¹ Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, Dorking, Surrey, UK [email protected].
² The Centre for Planetary Sciences at UCL/Birkbeck, Gower Street, London, UK.
³ University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
⁴ Astrophysics Research Centre, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK.
⁵ ESTEC, European Space Agency, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.

Abstract

The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission ended operations on 30 September 2016 having spent over 2 years in close proximity to its target comet, 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Shortly before this, in summer 2016, a discussion meeting was held to examine how the results of the mission could be framed in terms of cometary and solar system science in general. This paper provides a brief history of the Rosetta mission, and gives an overview of the meeting and the contents of this associated special issue.This article is part of the themed issue 'Cometary science after Rosetta'.

Keywords: Rosetta mission; comets; planetary science; space exploration.

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't