Wednesday will be a tense day for geeks

With a bit of luck, Wednesday tea time will bring confirmation of another monumental historic first.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29937050

That's when we'll know if the genuises at ESA have been successful in their efforts to land a man made probe onto a comet for the first time in history.

 

Cor

 

http://gizmodo.com/watch-the-rosetta-spacecraft-land-on-a-comet-with-this-1657484511

 

Successful landing

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30026398

 

Absolutely marvellous

 

amazing I cant wait for the live feed

 

History has been made. They did it. This is immense.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30026398

 

I think that's an understatement

Makes the moon landing seem like a piece of cheese cake.

 

A Fantastic Achievement . Downside-- they forgot to take my wife.

 

To put my last post into perspective, the moon's rotation around the earth at the equator (where it has its greatest speed) is 1,038 miles per hour, and that comet's speed is 34,000 mph.

Can somebody else check the respective distances of the Moon and this comet from Earth?

 

I 've heard say it was like a fly landing on a bullet,it's amazing

 

A bit tense again, now they think it bounced off, but landed again, but they don't know what angle its at.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30026398

 

I missed that bit...looks like it found a nice spot to park

 

It's less than 1,000 years since someone was sewing a depiction of a comet onto the Bayeaux tapestry. Now we've landed on one

 

Just merged the 2 threads