Rosetta in orbit!

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Wasillaguy

If threads were complete when senseless partisan snark was added, this site would be dead.

You wish.

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Ah, thank you for adding some senseless partisan snark. Now the thread is complete.

You were expecting maybe something intelligent?

[HarmanKardon]

It's kindergarten time again. Pity. It is such an impressive event but there is abvioulsly no need of an interesting discussion here.

[donquixote99]

It just did a couple of touch-and-goes, for practice.

[HarmanKardon]

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.

[MrPots]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Around a comet.

How about something nice? We could use it I think

"After a 10-year chase taking it billions of miles across the solar system, the Rosetta spacecraft made history Wednesday as it became the first probe to rendezvous with a comet on its journey around the sun.

"Thruster burn complete. Rosetta has arrived at comet 67P. We're in orbit!" announced the European Space Agency, which is leading the ambitious project, on Twitter.

Rosetta fired its thrusters on its final approach to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, known as "Chury" for short, on Wednesday morning. Half an hour after the burn, scientists announced that the craft had entered into the orbit of the streaking comet.

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"The pictures coming back so far look intriguing -- and imagine the kind of scenes we can expect when Philae lands this coming November," he said.

To get to its destination the spacecraft has covered more than three billion miles and as the comet hurtles towards the sun it will reach a speed of about 62,000 miles per hour.

The mission has now achieved the first of what it hopes will be a series of historic accomplishments. In November mission controllers aim to place the robotic lander Philae on the surface -- something that has never been done before.

Previous missions have performed comet fly-bys but Rosetta is different. This probe will follow the comet for more than a year, mapping and measuring how it changes as it is blasted by the sun's energy.

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http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/06/world/...omet-approach/

Pete

This is incredible isn't it? It's sad that the US is no longer a world leader in anything. But there certainly was a time..... now all we do is bicker with each other over whether to have a civilized and intelligent society or not.

Congratulations to the Europeans for being the adults in the world and moving forward.

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by MrPots

This is incredible isn't it? It's sad that the US is no longer a world leader in anything. But there certainly was a time..... now all we do is bicker with each other over whether to have a civilized and intelligent society or not.

Congratulations to the Europeans for being the adults in the world and moving forward.

You kidding me?
How about Facebook, Twitter, Instagram? And with Google and Microsoft, we rule the world and Apple keeps the world happy.

[BlueStreak]

Wow! The European Space Agency managed to achieve this with all that "Soshialism" and without the help of Ted Cruz?

WTF? How is that possible?



Dave

[merrylander]

Umm because they don't have a Ted Cruz?

[donquixote99]

That thing must be balanced better than a Swiss watch to keep Newton's third law from knocking it over whenever it moves anything.