ESA Rosetta, news, updates and discussion |
ESA Rosetta, news, updates and discussion |
Apr 15 2005, 08:20 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 563 Joined: 29-March 05 Member No.: 221 |
Well Rosetta isn't going to get to 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (Chury) till 2014, but it's not to early to set up a thread. There are a bunch of earth fly-bys, a Mars encounter at 200km in 2007 and a few asteriod passes. Not to mention the mission to land on the comet itself.
Only another nine and a half years to go. |
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Feb 5 2007, 07:22 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 688 Joined: 20-April 05 From: Sweden Member No.: 273 |
I can't understand why people would want to go metric, after all what's wrong with the old (Imperial?) system:
12 lines to an inch, 12 inches to a foot, 3 feet to a yard, 220 yards to a furlong, 8 furlongs to a mile and 3 miles to a league. 16 drams to an ounce, 16 ounces to a pound, 14 pounds to a stone, 2 stones to a quarter, 4 quarters to a hundredweight and 20 hundredweight to a long ton. Now that is what I call creative units, and if it leads to an occasional case of unintentional lithobraking, so what. |
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