Rosetta - Early Orbital Operations at Comet 67P C-G, August 6, 2014 - November 13, 2014 |
Rosetta - Early Orbital Operations at Comet 67P C-G, August 6, 2014 - November 13, 2014 |
Aug 6 2014, 09:29 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
Cheers at the European Space Operations Centre.
Well done! Rosetta has arrived Time for science!!!!!!! |
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Aug 9 2014, 10:14 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 796 Joined: 27-February 08 From: Heart of Europe Member No.: 4057 |
I found multiple articles where authors use known cometary rotation periods for determination of limits for shapes and density.
Very interesting is fig.15. in Photometry of cometary nuclei: Rotation rates, coloursand a comparison with Kuiper Belt Objects by C. Snodgrass, S. C. Lowry and A. Fitzsimmons. INCREDIBLE, Daniel--thank you!!!! In my opinion this is by far the most classically 'alien'-looking little world examined by spacecraft to date--straight out of a 1950s B-movie. Amazing to think of how different the processes by which all these odd, jagged landforms arose must be from those we've observed elsewhere. With any luck, though, we'll be able to see those processes in action a bit. Yes, this is beautiful crazy comet. From all comets observed from spacecrafts I think that this one is the best for detailed investigations. I hoped that 67P will be similar to the Wild 2 and it's actually even more crazy than "too wild Wild 2"! -------------------- |
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