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Rosetta

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2008 | Copyright

Rosetta , former name of Rashid , city (1986 pop. 51,789), N Egypt, in the Nile River delta. The city once dominated the region's rice market; rice milling and fish processing are the main industries of modern Rashid. Founded in the 9th cent., the city was formerly an important port but declined after the building (1819) of the Mahmudiyah Canal, which diverted its trade to Alexandria .

The Rosetta Stone is a granitoid slab inscribed in hieroglyphic, demotic, and Greek with identical texts of a decree by a council of priests during the reign of Ptolemy V . Part of a stele dating from 196 BC, it was found (1799) by Napoleon's troops near the city, was taken (1801) by the British, and since 1802 has been displayed at the British Museum. It gave Jean-François Champollion , Thomas Young , and others the key to Egyptian hieroglyphic .

Bibliography: See study by R. B. Parkinson (1999).

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Rosetta

A Dictionary of Astronomy | 1997 | Copyright

Rosetta An ESA probe to rendezvous with and land on a comet. It was launched in 2004March and will undergo three gravity assists from the Earth (in 2005, 2007, and 2009) and one from Mars (2007), as well as passing the asteroids Steins, in 2008September, and Lutetia, in 2010July, before reaching Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko in 2014May. After mapping the nucleus Rosetta will release a lander named Philae in 2014October to sample its surface as the comet approaches perihelion. http://rosetta.esa.int/

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Rosetta

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Rosetta (Rashīd), Egypt Founded c.800 by, and named after, Hārūn ar‐Rashīd (c.766–809), fifth caliph of the 'Abbāsid dynasty. Rosetta is the Anglicized form of the Arabic name. The ‘Rosetta Stone’, which allowed ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics to be deciphered, was found by a French officer just to the north in 1799.

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Rosetta

A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | | Copyright

Rosetta ♀ (Italian) pet form of Rosa, occasionally also used in the English-speaking world.

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Rosetta

A Dictionary of Earth Sciences | 1999 | | Copyright

Rosetta An ESA mission, to be launched in 2003, to comet Wirtanen.

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Rosetta ♀ (Italian) Pet form of Rosa.

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