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dlw wrote:
Where is Philae with respect to where it was intended to land? I know that speculation was that Philae drifted into a dark and vertical face nearby after bouncing. However the terrain shown in today's APOD seems far too rugged to have been the intended landing area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_flamingo wrote:

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<<The plastic pink flamingo designed in 1957 by Don Featherstone for Union Products became an icon of pop culture that won him the Ig Nobel Prize for Art in 1996. Featherstone was the first Ig Nobel Prize winner to appear in person to accept the award; Don and his wife, Nancy, came to almost every Ig Nobel Prize ceremony in succeeding years, where adoring throngs cheered them. Pink flamingos made by Union Products from 1987 (the 30th anniversary) until 2001 can be identified by the signature of Don Featherstone located on the rear underside. These official flamingos were sold in pairs, with one standing upright and the other with its head low to the ground, "feeding". After Featherstone's retirement in 2000, Union Products began producing birds without the signature. The Annals of Improbable Research (bestowers of the Ig Nobel prize) teamed up with the Museum of Bad Art to protest this omission in the form of a boycott.>>

bactame wrote:Comet 67P is the scariest place i have ever seen. Gives me the creeps every-time i see it. You can't tell up from down and it looks like you would fall off if you took 2 steps.

ta152h0 wrote:Those pesky motherships

ta152h0 wrote:What could happen if this fissure blows out the lander thru some process and the solar panels are panelling again ?

Catalina wrote:Must the mission end with a crash landing? With a low gravitational influence, wouldn't it be possible make calculations in order to land more softly and give the Rosetta a chance to perhaps gather some of the data that the Philae Lander was unable to obtain?