{"id":1229,"date":"2014-08-09T20:30:05","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T04:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2014-08-06T22:04:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T06:04:34","slug":"rosetta-makes-rendezvous-with-comet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/?p=1229","title":{"rendered":"Rosetta Makes Rendezvous With Comet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The day that the European Space Agency has been waiting for has finally arrived. Their space craft Rosetta has finally made rendezvous with the comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko after 10 years, five months and four days. In this process the space craft has gone round the sun five times and traveled 6.4 billion km.<\/p>\n<p>Rosetta was launched on 2 March 2004 and is carrying a lander called Philae which it will drop down on to the comet&#8217;s surface in the month of Novemenber. The space craft is currently 550m km away from the Earth and a message from the Rosetta takes 22 minutes to reach the scientists on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The ten year chase to map the surface of the comet is now coming to its actual purpose. This is the first time that a comet has been studied in such detail. The comet orbits the sun every six and a half years and travels between the orbits of Earth and Jupiter. It is nearly 4 km wide and is minus seventy degree Celsius. This is a much warmer temperature than what the researchers expected.<\/p>\n<p>More secrets from the comet&#8217;s surface will certainly be revealed when Philae lands and takes samples from its surface. We will wait and watch the results of this <a href=\"http:\/\/ezinearticles.com\/?Science-Fair-Projects---Complete-Guide-to-a-Winning-Science-Project-Step-3---Project-Research&amp;id=1784161\">science projec<\/a>t with baited breath. Rosetta will follow the elliptical orbit of the comet for nearly a year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day that the European Space Agency has been waiting for has finally arrived. Their space craft Rosetta has finally made rendezvous with the comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko after 10 years, five months and four days. In this process the space craft has gone round the sun five times and traveled 6.4 billion km. Rosetta was launched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1230,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions\/1230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}