[Magdalen] Philae has landed!

[Eleanor Braun]

Right.  It had several circuits around the solar system to pick up speed
from earth and Mars, and finally got where it was going.  What an
incredible accomplishment!

Eleanor

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Wasn't it launched 10 years ago?
>
> Marion, a pilgrim
>
> On 11/12/2014 11:11 AM, Jay Weigel wrote:
>
>> The ESA's Rosetta probe, Philae, has landed on Comet 67P just now. The
>> probe, launched 2 years ago from Kourou in French Guiana, touched down
>> just
>> a few seconds ago. Very exciting to this once wannabe astronomer who has
>> been following it.
>>
>>
>