{"id":8626,"date":"2014-08-19T16:25:28","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T20:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8626"},"modified":"2021-10-02T17:08:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T21:08:31","slug":"comet-67pc-g-versus-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8626","title":{"rendered":"Comet 67P\/C-G versus Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve posted several times about ESA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/rosetta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rosetta mission<\/a> to the Comet 67P\/Churyumov<span style=\"color: #292f33;\">-Gerasimenko, e.g. see <a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8579\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8499\">here<\/a>. The Rosetta images of the bizarrely shaped object \u00a0don&#8217;t provide a sense of its size. Here is an image that gives some scale to it with a comparison to downtown L.A. :<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/quark1972\/status\/501429546101784576\/photo\/1\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter \/ quark1972: comet #67P\/ &#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/now-you-can-truly-appreciate-the-size-of-comet-churymov-1623548762?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+io9%2Ffull+%28io9%29\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener\">Now You Can Truly Appreciate the Size of Comet Churymov-Gerasimenko &#8211; i09<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/67P_vs_LA.jpg\">[]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve posted several times about ESA&#8217;s Rosetta mission to the Comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, e.g. see here and here. The Rosetta images of the bizarrely shaped object \u00a0don&#8217;t provide a sense of its size. Here is an image that gives some scale to it with a comparison to downtown L.A. : Twitter \/ quark1972: comet #67P\/ &#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8626\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Comet 67P\/C-G versus Los Angeles<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroids","category-multiple-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2f8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8579,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8579","url_meta":{"origin":8626,"position":0},"title":"More Rosetta photos of comet 67P\/C-G","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 14, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Rosetta\u00a0returns more great pictures of the comet\u00a0t 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko:\u00a0 *\u00a0CometWatch \u2013 12 August | Rosetta - ESA's comet chaser Full-frame NAVCAM image taken on 12 August 2014 from a distance of about 103 km from comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. 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