Scientific aims of the Radio Science Investigations Experiment (RSI) at the comet Churyumov – Gerasimenko
‚Schwerefeldmessungen an einem Kometen‘
- Determination of mass and mean density
- Moments of inertia of the comet
- Precise determination of the comets orbit
‚Untersuchung der Kometenkoma‘
- Electron content
- Gas and dust production rates
- Amount of dust with grain size cm – dm
- Mass flow onto the spacecraft
‚Untersuchung des Kometenkerns (bistatic radar)‘
- Size and shape
- Structure and roughness of the surface
- Rotation, precession and nutation rates of the comet nucleus