Rosetta's crazy insertion maneuvers to get into orbit about comet 67P (animation)

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Robert A. Cook, PE. Extra to APoD members.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks LW, as you said, more than enough. Distance is more significant than mass, such that a fairly puny and not very dense object like Pluto, which travels in an orbit well isolated from other bodies, can host a moon that is a giant fraction of its own mass (1/12th) at a distance about 1/12th that of the Earth-Moon distance. And Pluto has some other moons as well.

[cripplecreek]

They used minimal fuel getting there. It took 10 years. At least 3 gravitational assists from earth and another from mars.

[LibWhacker]

Dude... Don't you know you can't steal someone else's work? Never mind that they didn't create it. No, this is the age of the internet, when someone can claim a work is theirs even though they didn't pay the maker one red cent for it, and get all huffy about it as if you stole it from them. Hmmm, okay, here it is from another source. And who gets credit for it? Isaac Newton, who drew the first version. Makers of all other versions could be sued for intellectual theft in a just world. Kind of like re-writing Moby Dick in your own words.

[cripplecreek]

That graphic just reminds me that I’m getting older.

[doug from upland]

Sheila Jackson Lee can help with Rosetta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qDKJOz4Q2c&list=UU6jh4IWdu3vXjTLUcgl2xjw

[RansomOttawa]

Go home, Mr. Sulu, you’re drunk.