Catching a comet. Rosetta begins its comet tale. Introduction

Affiliations

• ¹ European Space Research and Technology Centre, Science and Robotic Exploration Directorate, European Space Agency, Noordwijk, Netherlands. mtaylor@cosmos.esa.int.
• ² Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
• ³ European Space Astronomy Centre, Science and Robotic Exploration Directorate, European Space Agency, Madrid, Spain.
• ⁴ INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico, Trieste, Italy.
• ⁵ Laboratoire d'Etudes Spatiales et d'Instrumentation en Astrophysique, Observatoire de Paris, France.
• ⁶ Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany.