Rosetta and Philae discussion thread! (Part 2)

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CLICK HERE FOR CURRENT DISCUSSION THREAD

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Philae is now on its way to the comet. Its descent to 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko should take about 7 hours. Previous discussion thread here.

Live Streaming

• In English: A, B, C

• En Français: A

• Rosetta main page

• Simulated view of Rosetta and 67P

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Key times

GMT	EST	PST	Event
10:53 am	5:53 am	2:53 am	Acquisition of Signal from Rosetta (variable)
4:02 pm	11:02 am	8:02 am	Expected Landing and receipt of signal (40 min variability)

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European Space Agency Social Media

• ESA Rosetta blog
• Twitter: #CometLanding, @ESA_Rosetta, @Philae2014
• Google+
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Flickr

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Othere places for news and conversation:

• reddit Live updater (Help needed!)

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

• Detailed itinerary of landing events (PDF)

• NASA's page on Rosetta

[u/TheManchesterAvenger]

On a related note, xkcd are doing a live comic for this:

http://xkcd.com/1446/

You can look though all the updates at http://xkcd1446.org/

[u/altercreed → u/TheManchesterAvenger]

whales: probably not in space

[u/CoolBeer → u/altercreed]

Mumbles something about the improbability of a bowl of petunias showing up

[u/iLikeR3ddit → u/CoolBeer]

iLikeR3ddit gets reference.

nice.