promises to be a historic space flight event. without the wakeup, we wouldn t have a mission at all. it will now scout the comet for the perfect place to land before sending a probe to touchdown on the comet s surface in november. it will analyze samples as it travels with the comet on it trip around the sun. we know that s going to be a great adventure ride for everybody and return some fantastic aboscience. in august, it s supposed to land on the comet. that s very difficult. they re hoping, yes, to figure out the evolution of the solar system. if the ocean composition matches, it says a lot. valuable information. how about that. i m always shocked at how we
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researchers now believe part of it may have survived, if i can get my lips to work. cnn pete meet, jennifer gray is here with more amazing pictures on this event. this thing is really cool. it has science geeks like me really jazzed up about it. it took a trip around the sun yesterday. we are crossing our fingers hoping it survived. we have been watching this for more than a year. it has been traveling for more than 4 million years. which is incredible. we are really hoping it survived. the nucleus of it is three to four miles across. the tail is bigger or wider than australia. so this thing is just gigantic. is that why it is so unique, because of the size of this monster. well, for many years it is unique. they are calling it the comet of the century. it is the brightest comet that we are supposed to see in the last 50 years. we can learn so much about this. it is unique, because it is called a sun grazer.
axis, but the axis of the mathematical shape used to describe tert for most intents and purposes, the geoid, but i is the earth, it is an enormous thing. now, we are reducing the earth s ax si by 2.6 but it is not reducing the day by 2.6 it does? well, the earth will spin one millionth of a quartereth for every trip around the sun. this is not easily measured, but there are people who can measure it. furthermore, the earth in general is slowing down. the action of the moon and the sun and the tides and the earth s tides are serving to drag the spin of the earth a little bit, but this enormous effect, so big that you can