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 edjcox  Send message Joined: 20 May 99 Posts: 96 Credit: 5,878,353 RAC: 0 
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Attached is interesting video made by ESA regards Rosetta's upcoming Comet landing http://sen.com/news/rosetta-team-shows-that-science-fact-is-stranger-than-fiction Enjoy! Never engage stupid people at their level, they then have the home court advantage..... ID: 1596360 ·  |
Sirius B   Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24922 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 
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Attached is interesting video made by ESA regards Rosetta's upcoming Comet landing Made link active. ID: 1596472 · |
Lynn   Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123
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Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123
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Rosetta Races Toward Comet Touchdown Landing scheduled for Nov. 12 Landing site gets a name Camera gets sneak peek of the comet's "dark side" After sailing through space for more than 10 years, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft is now less than a week shy of landing a robotic probe on a comet. The mission's Philae (fee-LAY) lander is scheduled to touch down on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Wednesday, Nov. 12 at 7:35 a.m PST/10:35 a.m. EST. A signal confirming the landing is expected about 8:02 a.m. PST/11:02 a.m. EST. If all goes as planned with this complex engineering feat, it will be the first-ever soft landing of a spacecraft on a comet. http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/rosetta-races-toward-comet-touchdown/index.html#.VF1i4MlFrz8 ID: 1598323 · |
janneseti  Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 
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janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0
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Landing expected to 16:00 UTC:) ID: 1600197 · |
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W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19495 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 
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The lander Philae is on the comet. ID: 1600273 · |
Gary Charpentier    Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31132 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32
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One small step for a robot, one giant leap for robotkind. 
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Spencer Send message Joined: 5 Dec 12 Posts: 37 Credit: 1,944,056 RAC: 0 |
Well done, ESA!!! ID: 1600285 · |
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janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0
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One small step for a robot, one giant leap for robotkind. LOL ID: 1600302 · |
Bob DeWoody  Send message Joined: 9 May 10 Posts: 3387 Credit: 4,182,900 RAC: 10
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What I can't figure out is the promotion by the Science Channel. Live tonight at 9:00 PM EST coverage of the landing is what they have been advertising. Bob DeWoody My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events. ID: 1600434 · |
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Bob DeWoody Send message Joined: 9 May 10 Posts: 3387 Credit: 4,182,900 RAC: 10
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I'm watching it now. They lied. Bob DeWoody My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events. ID: 1600481 · |
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tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 
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Rosetta is at 511 millions (not billions) km from the Earth. Time delay is 28 min 30" for any signal up and down. Tullio ID: 1600542 · |
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W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19495 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67
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BBC - Rosetta: Comet probe Philae now stable - scientists The robot probe Philae that made a historic comet landing is now stable after initially failing to attach to the surface, the BBC has learnt. ID: 1600559 · |
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tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1
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BBC is still talking about billions of km/miles. They are millions. Tullio ID: 1600580 · |
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W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19495 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67
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BBC is still talking about billions of km/miles. They are millions. The only bit I can see with billions of Km is the length of journey, not the distance to the comet. The esa page Rosetta - Rosetta arrives at comet destination also quotes “After ten years, five months and four days travelling towards our destination, looping around the Sun five times and clocking up 6.4 billion kilometres, we are delighted to announce finally ‘we are here’,†says Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA’s Director General. Esa also has a page called The long Trek with description and animation of the trek. ID: 1600585 · |
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W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19495 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67
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Quick reminder. There is a briefing scheduled for 13:00 UTC, http://rosetta.esa.int/ That's right now, but it hasn't started yet. ID: 1600619 · |
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KLiK Send message Joined: 31 Mar 14 Posts: 1305 Credit: 22,994,597 RAC: 60 
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Yesterday a friend of mine asked me "hat is the big deal about Rosetta landing?" I replied: "well nothing special, execpt it's a outside an orbit of Mars...having only 1st ever landing on the Asteroid...and searching for life compaunds, to confirm Panspermia theory as a major rule." it just reminds me of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEY58fiSK8E   non-profit org. Play4Life in Zagreb, Croatia, EU ID: 1601019 · |
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janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0
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Yesterday a friend of mine asked me "hat is the big deal about Rosetta landing?" Reminds me of grumpy old men such as I :) ID: 1601085 · |
anniet  Send message Joined: 2 Feb 14 Posts: 7105 Credit: 1,577,368 RAC: 75 
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It fulfilled all its tasks, but we may have heard the last from it :-( Awwwwwww :( nodding off mid-sentence... even I don't do that... Standby isn't dead though :) so we might hear more... eventually... ID: 1601448 · |
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