[FairfieldLife] Re: On the way!

[awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote :

 


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fleetwood_macncheese@...> wrote :

 What an amazing mission - whether ordained or random, I am in awe of the 
orbital mechanics that had to be comprehended, and calculated, for this to 
occur. There are no straight lines in space, particularly when always lifting 
off a spinning, orbiting planet.
 

 Yes, it's quite an achievement to land something the size of a fridge freezer 
onto a spinning object half a billion miles away that's only about 5 miles 
wide! 
 

 A fine days work...
 

 No kidding. I was thinking that if humans can achieve something like that then 
there is no excuse for all the really, really stupid things they do back here 
on Earth.
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote :

 Taken by the Rosetta orbiter, the lander Philae on its way to land on a comet 
510,000,000 km away out beyond Mars.
 

 

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