Coming lander released - on the way down

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 8:17 am

fascinating piece of engineering and navigation - BBC has good coverage

http://www.bbc.com/news/live/science-en ... t-29985988

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 10:09 am

Harpoons away!

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 10:47 am

live stream

http://new.livestream.com/esa/cometlanding

Post by **Genom** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 11:31 am

Isnt the actual landing/harpooning at 1:02PM EST?

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 12:38 pm

landed a little after 11 am. Amazing you can shoot something into the air 10 years ago, match orbits with a comet, and then drop something on the surface.

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 7:09 pm

http://www.iflscience.com/space/graphic ... ttas-comet

b-man1 · Post by **b-man1** » Thu Nov 13, 2014 8:40 pm

http://www.purdue.edu/impactearth/

awesome!!!!

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Coming lander released - on the way down

Coming lander released - on the way down

What if the comet visited LA?