Rosetta - First ever spacecraft rendezvous with a comet

[IM Egdall]

After ten years of flight, ESA's Rosetta spacecraft now flying alongside a comet. This is an amazing feat. I can't wait to see what we learn from this.

http://annesastronomynews.com/rosetta-arrives-at-comet-destination/

[pantheory]

A Pretty awesome feat. Funny looking comet too. My guess is that it not of the typical variety at least in form. I hope we learn a lot.

[Eve]

Watched the event ! Really impressive !
Though, NASA did a great communication job, everyone felt so involved in Philae's landing !

 

Quite disapointed 67P was so hard ! I heard it had shallow density, wich would have made Philae drowning into the comet !

 

Now there's big problems with Philae. Because of its rebounds, it landed in a not a good place where it cannot get enough light to live for a longtime. Also, it makes its communications with Rosae longer and harder.

Drilling can't be done yet as Philae's harpoons did not fire !

Hope they'll fix it. It would be so bad be can't have needed infos !

 

@Pantheory : why isn't it a typical variety ? (I thought they were only "young kind" and "old kind" of comets!)

[Unity+]

I think this might lead to the conversation about mining the resources from comets.

[hoola]

I have heard on regular network tv reports of a "sound" like a warbley melotron, but there was no indication of what that really means. I presume it is a radio signal, and emitted from interactions of the outgassing, but nothing further on how this sound was picked up...

[imatfaal]

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Moderator Note

kristalris

This thread is about Rosetta - not about meteor impact on earth. Stop going off-topic. Do not respond to this moderation in the thread. Everyone back to Rosetta and Philae please.

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Moderator Note

 

Hijack about Comet/Meteor hitting earth Split off to here

 

http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/86541-cometmeteor-impact-with-earth-split-from-rosetta/