Rosetta Comet Landing
Rosetta Comet Landing
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- detritus0
“The low gravity on Comet 67P, which turns Philae from a fridge-weight to lighter than a feather, is what caused the first long [two hour] bounce” — http://www.theregister.co.uk/201…
- Hard to get my head around that — not the lower weight, as such, just the fact that it came back after bouncing..detritus
- lol so?detritus
- why's it hard to understand?everythin... falls on earth toomonospaced
- but if your'e referring to how something that small can have that much gravity.. yeah, a little mind bogglingmonospaced
- Yeah, I get gravity - I've been subject to it for much of my life, it's just the daintiness in these manoeuvres that bogglesdetritus
- I hear ya
monospaced - ^5detritus