Thanks for the updates, 709 and curiousuburb. Good old physics to the rescue then.
Does anyone know how much gravitational force a 4 km rock exerts, relative to earth’s gravity?
The photos are wild. To think that this rock is spinning through space, billions of kilometres away, and they’ve managed to put a machine on it. The cheek of it!
When
Philae left earth in early 2004, Macs still used PowerPC chips and Facebook hadn’t yet conquered our species.