Rosetta awakes from hibernation for asteroid

Spacecraft controllers have just awoken Rosetta from hibernation to prepare for its encounter with an asteroid in September. ESA's comet chaser will study the relatively rare asteroid as it flies by on its way to comet 67/P Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

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