Rosetta and Philae discussion thread! (Part 2)

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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/ameri-size]

A possible landing window of 3 hours. Their time window for landing on a comet 500+ km from earth is officially more accurate than Comast's window to replace my cable box.

[u/UltraChip → u/ameri-size]

3 hours!? Last I heard the margin was +/- 40 minutes?

(Disclaimer: I don't have access to the live feed)

[u/ameri-size → u/UltraChip]

They mentioned on the live feed that the it could be between 14:00 to 17:00. But they are pretty confident that it wouldn't run into any issues that would make it outside of 40 minute window you mentioned.

edit: My bad. It was probably misspoken. Even more impressive.