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Rosetta is named for the Rosetta Stone (right), an ancient script that provided the key to deconding Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Rosetta was initially going to visit another comet, but a launch delay caused it to miss its rendezvous window.
The team plans to fly past one asteroid during Rosetta's complex 10-year journey to the comet.