Your Chance To Name A Comet Landing Site

October 18, 2014
Ever want to get in on the celestial feature-naming action? Now is your chance.

The European Space Agency is inviting the public to suggest a name for the site where the Rosetta mission's Philae lander will touch down on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Nov. 12. The winner of the competition will have an opportunity to travel to the European Space Operations Center in Darmstadt, Germany, to follow the landing live from the mission's control center.

The competition will end on Oct. 22 at 4 p.m. PDT (7 p.m. EDT). The winner will be announced on Nov. 3 on the main Rosetta web page: http://www.esa.int/rosetta

For details of the competition and to enter, visit: http://sci.esa.int/rosetta-competition/