Category Archives: Asteroids & Comets

Asteroids & Comets, Events, Space Music

Music videos: Vangelis celebrates the Rosetta mission

The European Space Agency (ESA) released these three videos with music by Vangelis to celebrate Rosetta and the Philae landing today:

 

 

Asteroids & Comets, Events, Space Science

ESA’s Philae lander touches down on Comet 67P/C-G

Congratulations to ESA and the Rosetta team on the successful landing of Philae on Comet 67P/C-G :

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Rosetta’s lander Philae took this parting shot of its mothership shortly after separation.

Farewell_Philae_-_narrow-angle_view_node_full_image_2[1]Rosetta’s OSIRIS narrow-angle camera captured this parting shot
of the Philae lander after separation.

Some highlights of events leading up to the separation:

Asteroids & Comets, meteorites, Space Collecting

Christes auction of rare meteorites

Christes is holding an online auction (Nov.11-25) of 30 gorgeous meteorites. Check out the galleries:

A sampling:

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A Seymchan Meteorite Sphere
Discovered in Russia, 1967; Modern cutting.

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A Partial Slice of Imilac Meteorite
Discovered in the Atacama Desert, Chile, 1822; Modern Cutting.

NYR_10887_0022[1]A Gibeon Meteorite Sphere
Discovered in Namaland, Namibia, 1836.
Re-worked into a sphere more recently.

Asteroids & Comets, Events, Space Science

Video: ESA Rosetta webcast for Philae landing on Comet 67P/C-G

The webcast of the release of the Philae lander from the Rosetta spacecraft has begun: Rosetta | rendezvous with a comet.

The actual separation and landing will not happen till tomorrow (Nov.12):

Separation of the lander is planned for about 09:03 GMT (10:03 CET) [4:03 am EDT], and touch down should follow about seven hours later, at 16:02 GMT (17:02 CET) [11:02 am EDT].

See also latest info at:

Here’s the Rosetta and Philae landing timeline – Rosetta blog:

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Here is a video about the challenges of landing on this comet:

Asteroids & Comets, Astronomy, Simulators

Simulating Rosetta and Philae with ‘SpaceTraveller’

BINARY SPACE, which provides the Satellite Tracking Tool and with whom I work to make the Virtual SpaceTV 3D animated news reports, is developing a new program called the SpaceTraveller,”a solar system simulator and space mission visualizer program”. This video uses SpaceTraveller to depict the maneuvers of the Rosetta spacecraft at the comet Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It also shows the lander Philae and its deployment to the comet (currently scheduled for November 12, 2014).

For further info on SpaceTraveller, contact  info@binary-space.com.