[Calvin Locke]

A Japanese sample/return mission had that “bounce” problem, too.

[jjsheridan5]

If the thrusters aren’t working, what would cause a “bounce”? I thought it was a given that if the harpoons didn’t work and the craft didn’t stick the landing, the only way to stay on the surface was those thrusters, given the weakness of the gravitational field.

[Brother Cracker]

[MUDDOG]

harpoons failed to anchor it to the surface

The Great White Comet.

[JRandomFreeper]

Did someone forget to re-connect a canon plug?

/johnny

[cripplecreek]

Sounds like its sitting there and will probably be fine as long as nothing disturbs it.

[cripplecreek]

Just getting there is a hell of a feat.

[katana]

Any landing you can float away from is a good one.

[Daffynition]

Does the EU not know about duct tape?

[VanDeKoik]

So the comet could possibly “throw” the lander off of it?

[MinuteGal]

I heard on the radio news earlier today that the European Space Agency was crowing that the success of the mission (the "success" at that time of day, I might add) was not due to the United States space agency (NASA) or Germany, Britain, Russia, blah, blah....but to "European endeavors".

Well, we'll see how successful it was, probably tomorrow.

Leni

[Karl Spooner]

Nice piece of rock that God made.

[cicero2k]

You and I would weigh 2 grams on the comet.

So a sneeze would be more than escape velocity.

A theory is that the comet is more like a welder’s arc than a pressure cooker of gas. If so, anything conductive would fry.

[iowamark]

PBS video: “To Catch a Comet”

http://video.pbs.org/video/2365367186/

[Winniesboy]

Update Thursday am GMT: contact reestablished with the lander, now reported ‘stable’ and systems functioning. First image of surface from lander now available.