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Probe Lands On Comet 67p

zelio

Elio Addict
How cool is this, after a 10 year flight the comet probe Philae touched down today on a comet.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/12/world/comet-landing-countdown/index.html
Thanks for posting that, Mrtoycrazy. Imagine waiting for 10 years to find out if our Elios were going to be produced and work. I had heard this was expected to happen while going to the Y to swim yesterday but I don't listen to or read the news so had no idea what happened. I look forward to hearing more about this project in the future. :-) Z
 

tazairforce

Elio Addict
Landing on a moving target going 84,000 miles per hour. I just can't wrap my head around that speed. A bullet goes 1700 MPH.
This is faster! 23 miles per second! (if my math is right)

Yep!! Aint bad for a bunch of amatures.lol
We used to do stuff like that before someone closed OUR space program and just Gave the money away with Nothing in return, no lol.
 

LonePine

Elio Aficionado
Landing on a moving target going 84,000 miles per hour. I just can't wrap my head around that speed. A bullet goes 1700 MPH.
This is faster! 23 miles per second! (if my math is right)
Just remember that you're standing on a planet thats evolving, and revolving at 900 Miles an hour. Thats orbiting at 19 miles a second, (so its reckoned) a sun that is the source of all our power. The sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see, are moving at a million miles a day, in an outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour, of the galaxy we call the Milky Way. The galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars. Its a hundred thousand light-years side-to-side. It bulges in the middle, (sixteen thousand light-years thick) but out by us its just 3 thousand light-years wide. Its thirty thousand light-years to galactic central-point. We go 'round every two hundred million years. And our galaxy is only one of millions of bilions in this amazing and expanding universe. (Ahhhh, those old Monty Python movies were brilliant).
 
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