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11-12-2014, 09:23 AM
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Germany Just Landed a probe on a comet
For the first time in history a man-made object was placed on a comet moments ago.
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews...es=og.comments
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11-12-2014, 09:24 AM
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Re: Germany Just Landed a probe on a comet
Yeah!!!
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11-12-2014, 09:26 AM
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Re: Germany Just Landed a probe on a comet
Quite a feat!
the Philae Lander
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11-12-2014, 03:04 PM
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Re: Germany Just Landed a probe on a comet
Pretty amazing!
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11-12-2014, 03:11 PM
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Re: Germany Just Landed a probe on a comet
I thought when I was young they taught comets were made up of gas? Of course that was a long time back maybe memory fails me on that.
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11-12-2014, 08:17 PM
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of 10!! :)
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Re: Germany Just Landed a probe on a comet
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Hmmm. Ya reckon it's so?
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11-12-2014, 10:10 PM
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Re: Germany Just Landed a probe on a comet
The Rosetta spacecraft was launched in March 2004, with Philae inside, by the European Space Agency. Since then it travelled more than 6.5 billion km to catch up with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
When the landing took place, Rosetta, Philae and the comet were nearly 505 million km from Earth, between the orbit of Mars and Jupiter (for context, the average distance between the Earth and the Sun is 150 million km). At this distance, it takes 28 minutes for the speed-of-light radio communications to reach Earth from Rosetta and Philae.
This mission has been described as one of the most complicated and ambitious ever attempted.
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11-12-2014, 10:20 PM
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Re: Germany Just Landed a probe on a comet
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The Rosetta spacecraft was launched in March 2004, with Philae inside, by the European Space Agency. Since then it travelled more than 6.5 billion km to catch up with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
When the landing took place, Rosetta, Philae and the comet were nearly 505 million km from Earth, between the orbit of Mars and Jupiter (for context, the average distance between the Earth and the Sun is 150 million km). At this distance, it takes 28 minutes for the speed-of-light radio communications to reach Earth from Rosetta and Philae.
This mission has been described as one of the most complicated and ambitious ever attempted.
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Gotta wonder if even the angelic host didn't gasp and say, "did you see that?"
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11-12-2014, 10:55 PM
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Re: Germany Just Landed a probe on a comet
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Gotta wonder if even the angelic host didn't gasp and say, "did you see that?"
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lol
Nah, I think they saw someone repent and shirked the other off.
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11-13-2014, 06:02 AM
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Re: Germany Just Landed a probe on a comet
Yup
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