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Nov 17 2014 10:24pm
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This link correct? It's a Aussie website asking me to register and so forth.
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Nov 17 2014 11:25pm
has the comet revealed the origins of life on earth yet ?
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Nov 17 2014 11:30pm
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has the comet revealed the origins of life on earth yet ?


yep. comet was confirmed gods booger so god make it all.
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Nov 17 2014 11:36pm
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yep. comet was confirmed gods booger so god make it all.


u mean bogie. lol booger
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Nov 17 2014 11:55pm
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This link correct? It's a Aussie website asking me to register and so forth.


the link is correct BUT if you click it here r xfer it to another window then you are redirected :mad:
google "the australian rosetta probe" and you should be able to click it without getting redirected
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Nov 18 2014 07:19pm
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
now we have the 'rosetta; conspiracy theorists -> http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/alien-probe-conspiracy-theory-distracts-from-rosettas-huge-discovery-carbon-compounds/story-fnjwlcze-1227127884068
let me quote:

The conspirarcy theory goes something like this: The Rosetta/Philae mission to Comet 67P is government funded. It also involves scientists. Therefore, what they tell us simply has to be a lie.
“Comet 67P is NOT a Comet,” the declaration by UFOSightingsDaily reads.
That’s right: The comet is actually an alien space craft and the Philae lander is really our attempt at first contact.


enjoy the read and if you want go to the link provided therein :lol:
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Nov 19 2014 09:12pm
Did Philae drill the comet?

the drill was operated but what was really drilled? the current analysis is in http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/11/19/did-philae-drill-the-comet/

the last paragraph voices hope that more is to come from philae:

Mario Salatti, Philae Program Manager for ASI adds: "We are all hoping that Philae wakes up and we can perform many more measurements on the surface of the comet, including the chance to drill again with SD2. The final site where Philae landed does not enjoy long exposure to sunlight, but on the other hand, it opens new perspectives. As the lander appears to be currently shielded by walls, the local temperature may be lower than it would have been at the chosen landing site. So if Philae wakes up, it might remain operative much longer than expected, possibly until perihelion, which is extremely exciting."
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Nov 20 2014 05:34pm
after deploying philae, rosetta is now on it's way to re-establish a stable orbit, here a new image taken from more distance



Comet on 17 November – NavCam
This mosaic comprises four individual NAVCAM images taken from 42.0 km from the centre of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 17 November 2014. The image resolution is 3.6 m/pixel and thus each original 1024 x 1024 pixel frame measured 3.7 km across. The mosaic has been slightly rotated and cropped, and measures roughly 5.0 x 4.1 km.
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Nov 21 2014 07:31am
if you want to hear how it sounded when philae touched down on the comet -> https://soundcloud.com/esaops/philae-touchdown-thud
(note: the voice after pronounces the complete comet name)
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Nov 22 2014 06:20am
plenty efforts underway to determine where exactly philae is, here one effort (sorry for the long copy-pasta):


Philae's final landing site, estimated by CONSERT. Credits: ESA/Rosetta/Philae/CONSERT

In addition to the on-going visual searches using OSIRIS and NAVCAM images, the CONSERT experiment is helping scientists to locate Philae’s final landing site.
CONSERT, or the Comet Nucleus Sounding Experiment by Radio wave Transmission, is an experiment that works between the Rosetta orbiter and the Philae lander. It works by transmitting radio signals from the orbiter to the lander, and when the geometry is right, the signals pass through the nucleus of the comet, allowing its interior to be analysed.
The signals are received on the lander, where some data is extracted, and then immediately a new signal is transmitted back to the orbiter, where the main experimental data collection occurs. As the radio waves pass through different parts of the cometary nucleus, variations in propagation time and amplitude occur, and these can be used to determine various properties of the internal material and carry out a form of ‘tomography’.
But CONSERT is also being used to help identify the location of the lander, in combination with work performed by ESOC Flight Dynamics, the Philae lander team, the ESA Rosetta Science Ground Segment, and the OSIRIS camera team.
By making measurements of the distance between Rosetta and Philae during the periods of direct visibility between orbiter and lander, as well as measurements made through the core, the team have been able to narrow down the search to the strip presented in the image shown above. The determination of the landing zone is dependent on the underlying comet shape model used, which is why there are two candidate regions marked.
Planned high-resolution imaging by OSIRIS will be used to study the CONSERT predicted area.
The CONSERT team also need to know where Philae is before they can fully analyse their scientific data.
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