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Sleeping Rosetta Spacecraft Wakes Up for Historic Comet Rendezvous and Landing
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| 1-20-14
| Mike Wall
Posted on 01/20/2014 9:34:30 PM PST by smokingfrog
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"We have our comet-chaser back," said Alvaro Giménez, ESA's Director of Science and Robotic Exploration, in a statement. "With Rosetta, we will take comet exploration to a new level."
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posted on
01/20/2014 9:35:12 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: smokingfrog
My apologies to the universe.
I sent her up there to get her off my back.
I never thought she’d wake up and latch on the first hard thing she could find....
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posted on
01/20/2014 9:37:26 PM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: smokingfrog
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posted on
01/20/2014 9:52:26 PM PST
by
RightGeek
(FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
To: smokingfrog
I heard about this today.
It is like 500 million miles into space.
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posted on
01/20/2014 10:08:40 PM PST
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
To: smokingfrog
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posted on
01/20/2014 10:17:02 PM PST
by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
To: hosepipe
They intend to land it on a comet.
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posted on
01/20/2014 10:18:53 PM PST
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
To: smokingfrog
To: hosepipe
If all goes well, Rosetta will release a piggyback probe toland on the comet in November.
“We shall be on and around the comet to see how it is ‘living’ for more than one year, “ ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain said during a live webcast Monday. “It’s risky, because nobody has done that before, but this is the price to pay to learn about the origin of the solar system and perhaps more of the origin of life.”
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posted on
01/20/2014 10:22:22 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: smokingfrog
In theory comets come from deep deep space and are what delivered water to our forming planet.
The delivered the building blocks of life.
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posted on
01/20/2014 10:29:06 PM PST
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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posted on
01/20/2014 10:29:17 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: mylife
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posted on
01/20/2014 10:30:00 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: smokingfrog
It is a shame the last one plowed into the sun.
I filmed Hale Bopp in the remotest areas of the desert southwest (Ft Irwin) and then filmed it on night vision.
The length of the tail increased 5 fold on night vision.
I caught a meteor bisecting the tail.
To bad that film is on VHS C.
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posted on
01/20/2014 10:33:56 PM PST
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
To: smokingfrog
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posted on
01/20/2014 10:35:20 PM PST
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
To: mylife
To bad that film is on VHS C Sounds like it would be worth having converted into a DVD!
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posted on
01/20/2014 10:37:18 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: smokingfrog
Yeah, my friend is curator of the Houston Museum of natural science’s Astronomy dept and she suggested that I send it to NASA.
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01/20/2014 10:39:05 PM PST
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
To: mylife
I agree..fascinating for sure. I read about this just today and couldn’t imagine what it was like to be there for these folks. Though I’m not into space thingy’s I do find certain happenings/discoveries interesting.
Still find it amazing we have robots walking on Mars surface....that was fun watching and hard to imagine possible!
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posted on
01/20/2014 10:41:11 PM PST
by
caww
To: caww
These calculations were made decades ago.
You can determine the height of Lunar Mountains using trigonometry and lunar occultations.
I am an idiot, but there are really smart people out there.
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posted on
01/20/2014 10:44:48 PM PST
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
To: smokingfrog
I got some real good A10 warthog action from the same deployment ☺
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posted on
01/20/2014 10:48:15 PM PST
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
To: SunkenCiv
Space-related, future APOD-fodder pingy thingy.
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posted on
01/20/2014 10:48:41 PM PST
by
Squawk 8888
(I'd give up chocolate but I'm no quitter)
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