[Magdalen] Philae has landed!

Jay Weigel jay.weigel at gmail.com
Wed Nov 12 23:05:23 UTC 2014


Basically that's why I didn't become an astronomer....too damn much math.
OTOH, if I'd had decent math teachers in high school, I might have
continued, but my algebra teacher freshman year would bore the [essentials]
off a brass monkey, and my geometry teacher the next year couldn't teach a
two year old to open and close a door....so I couldn't wait to get out of
there.

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Doesn't matter. It is an extraordinary accomplishment.  What days we live
> in, with the best and worst of everything humanity can do!
>
> Marion, a pilgrim
>
> On 11/12/2014 1:39 PM, Jay Weigel wrote:
>
>> You're right, I don't know where I got two years. Oh well.
>>
>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>


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