[Credit: ESA / Rosetta / MPS for OSIRIS Team; MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA; Additional Processing & Copyright: Elisabetta Bonora & Marco Faccin (Alive Universe Images)]
1 posted on
09/14/2014 10:40:53 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
Just, Wow!
3 posted on
09/14/2014 11:32:07 PM PDT by
Prospero
(Si Deus trucido mihi, ego etiam fides Deus.)
To: SunkenCiv
a surface gravity so low that an astronaut could jump off of it. In about two months, Rosetta is scheduled to release the first probe ever to attempt a controlled landing on a comet's nucleus. A damp bottle rocket would probably be too much retro fire.
5 posted on
09/15/2014 12:02:32 AM PDT by
The Cajun
(Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert....Nuff said.)
To: SunkenCiv
Low gravity is the reason I have always been skeptical about plans to send astronauts to asteroids or plans to successfully mine an asteroid.
How do you anchor a shelter or an astronaut or a mining tool in place?
And, once you figure out how to dig, wouldn’t there be a perpetual fog of dirt and small rocks floating around?
To: SunkenCiv
Should be interesting watching that one as it becomes active.
14 posted on
09/15/2014 3:40:33 AM PDT by
cripplecreek
("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
To: SunkenCiv
I did the math earlier and worked out that Rosetta's orbital velocity around the comet is just over 6 kilometers a
day.
MD
16 posted on
09/15/2014 8:34:08 PM PDT by
MikeD
(We live in a world where babies are like velveteen rabbits that only become real if they are loved.)
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