Rosetta flyby of Asteroid Steins, 5th September 2008 |
Rosetta flyby of Asteroid Steins, 5th September 2008 |
Sep 5 2008, 10:58 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1447 Joined: 26-July 08 Member No.: 4270 |
Definitely looking forward to some images ^_^
I'm not very good with working out time zones, I get confused and frustrated really easily... =( How long from now is the press conference supposed to occur? -------------------- -- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)
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Sep 5 2008, 11:43 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Hungry4info: Here's my favorite Web resource for figuring out what time something is: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock The ESA Web briefing starts at 11:55 CEST. Here's a page with that time converted to all sorts of other time zones.
--Emily -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Sep 5 2008, 11:57 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1447 Joined: 26-July 08 Member No.: 4270 |
Hungry4info: Here's my favorite Web resource for figuring out what time something is: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock The ESA Web briefing starts at 11:55 CEST. Here's a page with that time converted to all sorts of other time zones. --Emily Oh, wow, that was much more comprehensible than the other sites I found. Thank-you for the link ^_^. It'll be ~5 AM for me when it comes on... going to pull an all-nighter . -------------------- -- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)
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Sep 6 2008, 12:28 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3234 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
Sure I might as well.
Now taking bets on the object that it can best be compared to. I am leaning toward armadillo. -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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Sep 6 2008, 01:01 AM
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Itokawa and Eros had a love child with a bad attitude.
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Sep 6 2008, 02:11 AM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
I am leaning toward armadillo. I'll bite. I'll guess: Guinea pig. --Emily -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Sep 6 2008, 02:28 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
Potato. Definitely potato.
-the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Sep 6 2008, 02:56 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
I'll say a yam.
-------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Sep 6 2008, 03:38 AM
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since all the obvious ones are taken, Snoopy!
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Sep 6 2008, 04:03 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
QUOTE It's incredible!Flight Director Paolo Ferri, speaking in the Rosetta control room a few moments ago:"It's not a spacecraft, it's a rock. It's solid like a rock - it's incredible!" Wait... is he talking about Steins or Rosetta??!?!? QUOTE The Rosetta team are expecting the next data download opportunity via NASA Goldstone starting at about 01:00 CEST, 6 Sep. Image and science data will start arriving about 02:00, and the science teams will work through to process the results. We'll log off now and plan to be back on for blog & web coverage starting at about 08:00 CEST, 6 September. Patience, people! -------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Sep 6 2008, 04:39 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1447 Joined: 26-July 08 Member No.: 4270 |
since all the obvious ones are taken, Snoopy! I suppose I'll guess a fractal pattern, lol. QUOTE ("lyford") Wait... is he talking about Steins or Rosetta??!?!? Yeah that's what I was thinking, too. Certainly is a confusing statement. Perhaps it's a joke? Sort of like a "Oh by the way, Steins isn't an alien mothership"? -------------------- -- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)
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Sep 6 2008, 05:43 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Okay...I'm gonna go with "fat-hockey-puck-looking-thingy-with-a-couple-of-chips-knocked-out-of-it".
More specific than that I cannot be. -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Sep 6 2008, 06:43 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2922 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
Oh, wow, that was much more comprehensible than the other sites I found. Thank-you for the link ^_^. It'll be ~5 AM for me when it comes on... going to pull an all-nighter . On top of all different time zone there is this "am" "pm" that we do not use in most of EU countries :it's 1 to 24 and that's it. BTW, what about sols on Mars? -------------------- |
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Sep 6 2008, 07:39 AM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
Dear Ted...you MUST admit that things are changing for better...
I didn't found Paolo Ferri's statement confusing...Rosetta's the rock...solid as a rock... And now...exclusive for UMSF!...the first Steins image ever seen outside ESA's realm! From here... -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Sep 6 2008, 07:42 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
GO USTRAX!!!!
Of course, it's the Rosetta STONE.... -------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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