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Rosetta makes final home call

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Europe's Rosetta probe has made its third and final flyby of Earth as it seeks to discover what makes a comet in 2014.

The spacecraft's whip around the planet will give it the extra speed it needs to take it out to the rendezvous location near Jupiter.

Launched in 2004, Rosetta has already flown by Earth twice and Mars once.

Palab Ghosh reports.

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