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Message 1596360 - Posted: 3 Nov 2014, 8:27:40 UTC

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

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Message 1596472 - Posted: 3 Nov 2014, 16:01:04 UTC - in response to Message 1596360.  

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

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Message 1598323 - Posted: 8 Nov 2014, 0:29:52 UTC - in response to Message 1596696.  

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
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Message 1600168 - Posted: 12 Nov 2014, 8:39:01 UTC
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Seperation was successfull:)
Landing expected to 17:30 UTC

Live coverage.
http://rosetta.esa.int/
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Message 1600197 - Posted: 12 Nov 2014, 11:27:59 UTC

Landing expected to 16:00 UTC:)
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Message 1600273 - Posted: 12 Nov 2014, 16:10:33 UTC
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The lander Philae is on the comet.
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Message 1600276 - Posted: 12 Nov 2014, 16:12:04 UTC

One small step for a robot, one giant leap for robotkind.
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Message 1600285 - Posted: 12 Nov 2014, 16:22:18 UTC

Well done, ESA!!!
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Message 1600302 - Posted: 12 Nov 2014, 17:24:58 UTC - in response to Message 1600276.  

One small step for a robot, one giant leap for robotkind.

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Message 1600434 - Posted: 13 Nov 2014, 0:08:22 UTC

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.
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Message 1600481 - Posted: 13 Nov 2014, 2:34:32 UTC

I'm watching it now. They lied.
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Message 1600542 - Posted: 13 Nov 2014, 8:04:52 UTC

Rosetta is at 511 millions (not billions) km from the Earth. Time delay is 28 min 30" for any signal up and down.
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Message 1600559 - Posted: 13 Nov 2014, 9:16:12 UTC

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.

Pictures are coming back from the craft as scientists debate how to proceed.

European Space Agency engineers working on the lander say it may have bounced hundreds of metres back up off the surface after first touching down.
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Message 1600580 - Posted: 13 Nov 2014, 10:41:40 UTC - in response to Message 1600559.  
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BBC is still talking about billions of km/miles. They are millions.
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Message 1600585 - Posted: 13 Nov 2014, 11:02:57 UTC - in response to Message 1600580.  
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BBC is still talking about billions of km/miles. They are millions.
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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.
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Message 1600619 - Posted: 13 Nov 2014, 13:01:17 UTC

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.
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Message 1601019 - Posted: 14 Nov 2014, 10:14:59 UTC
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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


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Message 1601085 - Posted: 14 Nov 2014, 15:17:07 UTC - in response to Message 1601019.  

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

Reminds me of grumpy old men such as I :)
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Message 1601448 - Posted: 15 Nov 2014, 17:26:50 UTC - in response to Message 1601348.  
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It fulfilled all its tasks, but we may have heard the last from it :-(

Gone to sleep


Awwwwwww :( nodding off mid-sentence... even I don't do that...
Standby isn't dead though :) so we might hear more... eventually...
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