Chasing a comet

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Rosetta's journey from launch in March 2004 to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in August 2014, including 3 flybys of Earth and 1 of Mars. By January 2014 Rosetta is about 9 million kilometres from comet 67P/CG. By early May, Rosetta will be 2 million kilometres from the comet and at the end of May the spacecraft will execute a major rendezvous manoeuvre to line it up for orbit insertion at the start of August.
The comet and planets are not to scale.

Credits: ESA -- C. Carreau
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We just finished learning about polar coordinates in school(area, arc length, etc). I can really see the application here!

lancelovecraft
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I wonder how by how many kilometers it would miss if you would make a 0, 01 degree error during the gravity assist maneuvers.

palker
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The math behind this must've been ridiculous.

RedTheBible
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And that's whu kids, we should learn mathematics!

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