Rosetta's blind date with asteroid Lutetia

Follow the Rosetta rendez-vouz with Lutetia on Saturday July 10, 2010, 18:00 - 23.30 CEST

Part 1 18:00 - 23:00 CEST

• Welcome, live switch from Rosetta Control Room at ESA/ESOC, Darmstadt. Closest approach 18:10:07 CEST. Interviews with mission scientists and operations engineers.
• ESA's Head of Operation Manfred Warhaut, on why we study asteroids and ESA's new Space Situational Awareness Programme.
• ESA's Director for Science, David Southwood, on the science of asteroids.

Intermission 18:50 - 23:00 CEST

• Rosetta mission background (archive video) while scientists receive and process fly-by data and images
• Perfect break to watch World Cup soccer semi-final!! http://www.fifa.com

Part 2 23:00 - 23:30 CEST

• Introduction and presentation of images
• On-site media Q&A with mission scientists