On Tuesday, December 9, 2014 8:55:56 PM UTC-5, palsing wrote:
On Tuesday, December 9, 2014 5:34:54 PM UTC-8, wrote:

Rosetta $1.8 billion dollar including Philae... close enough. The lander was the hype. Comet rendezvous and orbit... not so much.

But hey, maybe if the thing hasn't frozen solid in a few months...

It seems to me that it is more likely to die of overheating rather than freezing...

If it's in a shadow it will tend to freeze.