Asteroid Lutetia Revealed by Rosetta

Asteroid Lutetia, As Seen By Rosetta’s OSIRIS Imaging System, DLR
“The European Rosetta spacecraft has achieved a further milestone on its journey to the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. On 10 July 2010 at 17:45 CEST, the orbiter flew past asteroid Lutetia on its second and final pass of the asteroid belt at about 15 kilometres per second – 54,000 kilometres per hour – merely 3162 kilometres from the asteroid. The confirmation was delivered at 18:10 CEST to ESA’s European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt.”