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Billion-dollar European probe set for asteroid encounter (AFP)

Artist's impression of the European Space Agency (ESA) probe Rosetta with Mars in the background. The pride of the ESA, Rosetta, has been ordered out of hibernation four and a half years into a 10-year trek that will take it into the dark chill of deep space, scheduled to rendezvous in 2014 with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, sending down a refrigerator-sized lab to examine its crusty surface.(AFP/File/C.Carreau)AFP - Far from Earth, a robot spacecraft has been prodded from deep slumber to make a rare encounter with an asteroid, the intriguing orbital debris that could offer clues into the making of the Solar System.


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