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Jet! Rosetta’s Comet Is Feeling The Heat As Gas and Dust Erupts From Surface
http://www.universetoday.com/116732/jet-rosettas-comet-is-feeling-the-heat-as-gas-and-dust-erupts-from-surface/ ^
| on November 26, 2014
| Elizabeth Howell
Posted on 11/26/2014 4:06:25 PM PST by BenLurkin
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posted on
11/26/2014 4:06:25 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
This is an incredible thing to be witness to. Bear that in mind.
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posted on
11/26/2014 4:11:31 PM PST
by
dr_lew
To: BenLurkin
Image from the article:
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posted on
11/26/2014 4:11:39 PM PST
by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
To: Straight Vermonter
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posted on
11/26/2014 4:12:01 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Did they lose the lander ?
To: dr_lew
It really is and since this comet seems to have a mixed composition — I wonder if the exact mechanics of a comet’s double tail will get imaged.
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posted on
11/26/2014 4:13:57 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: Patton@Bastogne
That or lost track of it.
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posted on
11/26/2014 4:14:44 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: BenLurkin
did the lander bounce off... and is on a magic carpet ride?..
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posted on
11/26/2014 4:19:57 PM PST
by
hosepipe
(" This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole.. ")
To: Patton@Bastogne
Not lost exactly. Just hoping it will get enough sunlight to be operational when it gets closer to the sun.
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posted on
11/26/2014 4:23:34 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(You can't half ass conservatism.)
To: BenLurkin
I keep reminding myself...
This was cutting edge technology when this mission was launched...
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posted on
11/26/2014 4:24:08 PM PST
by
kingu
(Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
To: BenLurkin
Can we see the flag that Louis Armstrong planted???
To: Patton@Bastogne; BenLurkin; hosepipe
IIRC, the lander bounced because the harpoons didn’t fire and it fell in to a crevice where the solar panels couldn’t receive sunlight.
They got about 90 minutes of science out of it.
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posted on
11/26/2014 4:25:15 PM PST
by
Crazieman
(Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
To: Patton@Bastogne
They think the lander bounced twice and ended up on its side in a canyon where it is getting very little light to recharge its batteries.
It was able to send quite a bit of data before the batteries died, and they are hoping that as it gets closer the increased amount of light reaching its solar cells will re-energize the machine and it will start collecting and transmitting data again.
Still, even landing the thing was an amazing feat, and the little data they got is still far more than we knew beforehand.
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posted on
11/26/2014 4:25:21 PM PST
by
Don W
(To laugh, perhaps to dream...)
To: Patton@Bastogne
Did they lose the lander ?The lander harpoon spike failed to fire, so the lander bounced 3 times (in very low gravity) and they aren't really sure exactly where it is.
It is too small to be 'resolved' in the images coming back from the Rosetta Stone.
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posted on
11/26/2014 4:25:26 PM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: BenLurkin
“I, for one, welcome our new rubber duckie overlords.”
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posted on
11/26/2014 4:25:36 PM PST
by
Zeppo
("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
To: BenLurkin
After Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow night, gas and dust will be rising from my pants. Does that make me a comet or just a shooting star?
To: Organic Panic
Didn’t your momma teach you it isn’t nice to pick on the mentally handicapped.
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posted on
11/26/2014 5:06:38 PM PST
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
To: Straight Vermonter
That’s odd; it doesn’t LOOK like a snowball. :-)
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posted on
11/26/2014 5:09:39 PM PST
by
ForGod'sSake
(What part of "Fundamentally transforming the United States of America" don't the LIV understand?)
To: Swordmaker
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posted on
11/26/2014 5:11:54 PM PST
by
ForGod'sSake
(What part of "Fundamentally transforming the United States of America" don't the LIV understand?)
To: kingu
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posted on
11/26/2014 5:14:00 PM PST
by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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