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Modeling Rosetta's final descent
DOI: 10.1119/1.4967884 Bibcode: 2016PhTea..54..516B

Blanco, Philip

2016 • The Physics Teacher
Rosetta 0
Angular momentum and Philae's descent
DOI: 10.1119/1.4935754 Bibcode: 2015PhTea..53..516B

Blanco, Philip

2015 • The Physics Teacher
Rosetta 2
Rosetta Mission's "7 Hours of Terror" and Philae's Descent
DOI: 10.1119/1.4928346 Bibcode: 2015PhTea..53..339B

Blanco, Philip

In November 2014 the Rosetta mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko made the headlines when its Philae lander completed a successful unpowered descent onto the surface of the comet nucleus after "7 hours of terror" for the mission scientists. 67P's irregular shape and rotation made this task even more challenging. Philae fell almost radially t…

2015 • The Physics Teacher
Rosetta 2