After a ten-year interplanetary journey, the ESA Rosetta spacecraft has performed the most detailed observations of one of the oldest building blocks of our Solar System, the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The main results of these unique observations will be presented to the scientific community of the Trieste area in the form of three special seminars.

Two seminars will be delivered on October 12, 14:30, at the ICTP Adriatico Guesthouse (Via Grignano 9, Trieste),  Kastler Lecture Hall. The third seminar is scheduled on October 13, 11:30, at INAF - Trieste Astronomical Observatory (Via Bazzoni 2, Trieste).

The seminars are organized by INAF-Trieste Astronomical Observatory in collaboration with the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, the Italian Astrobiology Society, and the Science Centre Immaginario Scientifico.

A conference on the Rosetta mission oriented to the general public will be held on October 12, 18:00, at Museo Revoltella (Via Diaz 27, Trieste). The public conference is organized in collaboration with the City of Trieste and will be held in Italian.

Below you can find a program of all these events.

For more information please visit the web page 

You are cordially invited to participate !

Giovanni Vladilo

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Program of "Rosetta: Light on our origins"  

October 12, 2015 - Kastler Lecture Hall, ICTP Adriatico Guesthouse, Via Grignano 9, Trieste

14:30 Welcome address 

14:45 Fabrizio Capaccioni (INAF-IAPS) 

      "The nucleus and coma of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from VIRTIS/Rosetta"

15:30 Kathrin Altwegg (Center for Space and Habitability, Univ. of Bern, CH) 

      "The zoo of organics in 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from ROSINA/Rosetta"

16:30 Cocktail offered by ICTP 

October 12, 2015 - Museo Revoltella, Via Armando Diaz, 27, Trieste

18:00 Public Conference chaired by Fabio Pagan: "Una cometa presa per la coda"

      Fabrizio Capaccioni (INAF-IAPS): "La missione Rosetta/Phylae"

      Marco Fulle (INAF-OATs): "Molecole organiche sulla Churyumov-Gerasimenko"

October 13, 2015 - INAF-Trieste Astronomical Observatory, Villa Bazzoni, Via Bazzoni 2, Trieste

11:30 Kathrin Altwegg (Center for Space and Habitability, Univ. of Bern, CH) 

  "Living with a comet: highlights from the ROSINA instruments on the European Rosetta mission"