Bjørn Sørheim wrote:
Philae on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

And then no discussion about it on sci.astro??
What have this ng turned into? More or less a sesspool of destructive
people?


Pretty much. It should perhaps be renamed sci.psych.abnormal.

Was there anything specific you wanted to know about Philae?

Apparently the lander bounced three times before coming to rest on the
surface of the comet, and I suspect the initial "silence" from ESA was due
to not being able to figure out why some of the readings were varying
unexpectedly such as IR and magnetometer right after touchdown. A few
images from the surface have now been received. The lander seems to be up
against some sort of vertical rock on one side which may be shading the
solar cells. They need to know more about the exact geometry before
attempting to move it, as doing something now might make matters worse.

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Mike Dworetsky

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