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Mission to Harpoon Comet is Back on Track

Posted by michael on from the go-go-go dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Rosetta mission planners have announced today that after an indefinite launch delay earlier this year, their goal of landing on a comet is back on track. Their new baseline target is a rendezvous with the comet, Churyumov-Gerasimenko, in November 2014. En route to the comet, Rosetta will inspect two asteroids (Otawara and Siwa) at close quarters."

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  1. and if they screw up... by TWX · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... and send the comet crashing into the earth, Lori Petty will rescue Naomi Watts, and they will fight against Malcolm McDowell and save us all from Water and Power!

    I think I need to turn off the TV and go outside now...

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  2. Tip for NASA by Da+Fokka · · Score: 4, Funny

    one foot is 0.3049m

  3. Yeah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Rosetta will inspect two asteroids (Otawara and Siwa) at close quarters."

    It's about time that us humans started doing the probing to the aliens!

  4. Hey... by Faust7 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Second chance for any Heaven's Gate folks that got left behind!

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  5. Re:Dumbest idea EVAR by bmckeever · · Score: 5, Funny
    There's this really big thing in the center of the Solar System that exerts a gravitational on the earth. I know it looks small from here (about the size of a quarter), but it's really big.

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