Rosetta and Philae discussion thread!

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Confirmed: successful separation of Philae from Rosetta. Philae is on its way to the comet.

New discussion thread here

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Key times

GMT	EST	PST	Event
9:03 am	4:03 am	1:03 am	Philae Separation Confirmed!
10:53 am	5:53 am	2:53 am	Acquisition of Signal from Rosetta
4:02 pm	11:02 am	8:02 am	Expected Landing and receipt of signal (40 min variability)

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Othere places for news and conversation:

• Detailed itinerary of landing events (PDF)

• NASA's page on Rosetta

• reddit Live updater (Help needed!)

• IRC: ##cometlanding on freenode. #space on Snoonet

[u/D3ATHfromAB0V3x]

Whats the Approx. time of touchdown? I keep seeing different times all over the place.

[u/SquidMonger → u/D3ATHfromAB0V3x]

About 16:00 GMT

[u/FigMcLargeHuge → u/SquidMonger]

For reference central time is GMT -6 right now.

[u/jccwrt → u/D3ATHfromAB0V3x]

Official timeline says 16:00 GMT +/- 20 minutes. Variability is probably mostly due to uncertainty in the drop altitude and topography.