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Comet Landing Today - results @ 4:30pm
Mr Whippy - 12/11/14 at 12:35 PM

In case your interested it's finally here, landing at 4:02 pm signal back roughly 4:30 pm, that's if it manages not to crash...

Personnaly been amazed at the pictures so far and I think this even if it ends in a crash has been a superb mission , Hollywood didn't even dream up something so wild looking to land on. Would love to see some sort of car try to drive on this thing! how fast could go before bouncing clean off into space?!

Mission Control Linky

Smoking Frog - 12/11/14 at 02:07 PM

Amazing! Things have moved on some, I still remember Sputnik.

Slimy38 - 12/11/14 at 02:40 PM

I'm really looking forward to this one. As you say, even if it fails it's still a success. Fingers crossed it goes well.

Texan - 12/11/14 at 04:10 PM

They are down and so far so good.

steve m - 12/11/14 at 05:02 PM

Yes they are, but the thrusters, and harpoons did not work, so how long will it stay on is the next question

bi22le - 12/11/14 at 06:03 PM

Whats lerking in the black hole on the end!?!?

Its amazing stuff. What will be more fascinating is when the get a probe on one of Jupiter's moons. There may be life on there!!

rotax78 - 12/11/14 at 06:09 PM

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Whats lerking in the black hole on the end!?!?



Clangers or the soup dragon!

blakep82 - 12/11/14 at 06:14 PM

YEAH SCIENCE!
This is awesome, I can't quite work out the size of the thing though, but looking forward to seeing more of it

Mr Whippy - 12/11/14 at 07:04 PM

quote:
Originally posted by blakep82
YEAH SCIENCE!
This is awesome, I can't quite work out the size of the thing though, but looking forward to seeing more of it


Benzine - 12/11/14 at 07:24 PM

steve m - 12/11/14 at 07:24 PM

Google have taken it well,

https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=ssl

steve m - 12/11/14 at 07:29 PM

Any got a link to any pics of the landing etc, as for some reason, ive got no Video display at home?

blakep82 - 12/11/14 at 08:12 PM

Quite big then :O
Seeing the video of it spinning, it looked about the size of a house or something

jeffw - 12/11/14 at 08:55 PM

5Km across apparently

02GF74 - 12/11/14 at 11:02 PM

Has the probe got suction cup feet? The gravity of a 5 km rock must be negligible.

blakep82 - 12/11/14 at 11:17 PM

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Originally posted by 02GF74
Has the probe got suction cup feet? The gravity of a 5 km rock must be negligible.



Supposed to harpoon itself into it, but the harpoon didn't fire, so they're just hoping it doesnt fly off too soon, and they're calling it a win anyway. I have to agree. I couldnt fire a rocket at something 300 million miles away, 10 years ago and expect it not to crash a quarter mile from the launch

slingshot2000 - 13/11/14 at 12:14 AM

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Originally posted by rotax78
quote:

Whats lerking in the black hole on the end!?!?



Clangers or the soup dragon!


^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Brilliant, I can just see the dust-bin lids in the shadows if I look closely !