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Exhilarationg moments (around 20H30 CEST) as the team of Rosetta's OSIRIS camera receive the very first images taken at close quarters of the asteroid. Amongst those present the OSIRIS Principal Investigator Holger SIERKS from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Linday: "We have discovered a new world!"