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Audacious Comet Landing Site Chosen

Posted September 15, 2014 10:00 AM

From BBC News - Science & Environment:

Europe's Rosetta mission, which aims to land on a 4km-wide comet later this year, identifies what it thinks is the safest place to touch down.

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europium mkII Guru Join Date: Apr 2014 Posts: 1869 Good Answers: 67	#1 Re: Audacious Comet Landing Site Chosen 09/15/2014 2:26 PM
	Far preferable to that comet landing on us. Cheaper, too. ----- By the way, shouldn't that read *'Auspicious* Landing Site Chosen'?
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Kilowatt0 Guru Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Earth - I think. Posts: 2143 Good Answers: 165	#2 Re: Audacious Comet Landing Site Chosen 09/15/2014 6:12 PM
	Let's just hope they don't intermix their imperial & metric units. __________________ TANSTAAFL (If you don't know what that means, Google it - yourself)
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Brave Sir Robin Guru Join Date: May 2007 Location: Annapolis, Maryland Posts: 7940 Good Answers: 458	#3 Re: Audacious Comet Landing Site Chosen 09/16/2014 4:20 PM
	How will you land on something with very small gravitational force? It would be more akin to docking with it.
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