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Rosetta to make final home call
« on: November 12, 2009, 20:25 »
Europe's Rosetta probe will make its third and final flyby of Earth on Friday as it seeks to position itself to chase down a comet in 2014.

The spacecraft's whip around the planet will give it the extra speed it needs to take it out to the rendezvous location near Jupiter.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8355873.stm
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Re: Rosetta to make final home call
« Reply #1 on: November 12, 2009, 21:20 »
Five years after it's launch and it's back where it started!  Bloody SatNav strikes again!   ;D  It's not the first comet probe but it's certainly the most sophisticated as the lander is actually going to attach itself to the comet in order to conduct tests using a myriad of clever instruments which will analyze its composition and monitor activity.  In 2014 I will be even older than I am now!   :bawl:
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Re: Rosetta to make final home call
« Reply #2 on: November 12, 2009, 21:24 »
So will we all - hopefully!  ;)
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Re: Rosetta to make final home call
« Reply #3 on: November 12, 2009, 21:37 »
hopefully I will be younger...
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Re: Rosetta to make final home call
« Reply #4 on: November 12, 2009, 21:43 »
Any younger and you will be pre-pubescent Sam.  Lizzie would be arrested!   ;D
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Re: Rosetta to make final home call
« Reply #5 on: November 12, 2009, 22:25 »
Quote from: sam on November 12, 2009, 21:37
hopefully I will be younger...

So, that's what this astronomy sh*t is all about - he's learning time travel!   :woot:
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Re: Rosetta to make final home call
« Reply #6 on: November 12, 2009, 22:51 »
The new Doctor!   8-)
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Re: Rosetta to make final home call
« Reply #7 on: November 12, 2009, 22:52 »
Who?
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Re: Rosetta to make final home call
« Reply #8 on: November 12, 2009, 22:55 »
 :laugh:
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Re: Rosetta to make final home call
« Reply #9 on: November 12, 2009, 22:58 »
We refuse to change nappies Sam so you had better not go too far back!   :laugh:
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Re: Rosetta to make final home call
« Reply #10 on: November 12, 2009, 23:10 »
sometimes I wish I could go back a year and change things.. but then again i'd probably make the same stupid mistakes but slightly differently!
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Re: Rosetta to make final home call
« Reply #11 on: November 12, 2009, 23:13 »
Don't we all!   ;)
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Re: Rosetta to make final home call
« Reply #12 on: November 12, 2009, 23:16 »
Mine would be even worse!   :)x
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Re: Rosetta to make final home call
« Reply #13 on: November 12, 2009, 23:27 »
Well, you'd have another three cruises to look forward to!  ;D
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Re: Rosetta to make final home call
« Reply #14 on: November 12, 2009, 23:30 »
I like that idea!   ;D 
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