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Ah, thank you for adding some senseless partisan snark. Now the thread is complete.
You were expecting maybe something intelligent?
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It's kindergarten time again. Pity. It is such an impressive event but there is abvioulsly no need of an interesting discussion here.
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Stay the course, Chris. Rosetta is far more fascinating.
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It's kindergarten time again. Pity. It is such an impressive event but there is abvioulsly no need of an interesting discussion here.
The accomplishment of landing a probe on a comet half a billion kilometers away and which is traveling faster than 40K miles per hour is simply mind boggling. Congrats for a great accomplishment. I love this picture of sheer joy after a 10 year mission.

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Stay the course, Chris. Rosetta is far more fascinating.
Indeed it is, a very significant accomplishment and watching PBS Newshour coverage last evening it seems that the project leader was a woman.
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Philea had some difficulties, it landed three times, because it had been pushed back two times. Between the first and second attempt there were two hours, between the second and third attempt some minutes.
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It just did a couple of touch-and-goes, for practice.
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J was the actual landing strip, but now they assume Philae being in the region of B. This position is much more unflattering because it makes the supply with energy more difficult.
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Philea had some difficulties, it landed three times, because it had been pushed back two times. Between the first and second attempt there were two hours, between the second and third attempt some minutes.
Philea's weight in the low (almost non-existant) gravity is effectively 1 gram
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