Last night , Rosetta made the first of three burns to settle into orbit aroundcomet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko . But , just how self-aggrandising is that lump of foul snow ? It is taller than Mount Fuji , big enough to obliterate a Borg Cube , and it would make a cozy home for a space slug .
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It ’s taken ten years , five months , and four days to get this closing curtain ; now it ’s just two more Nathan Birnbaum over the next few Clarence Day to get into last orbit . After that , it ’ll be a few month of not - so - distant perception , picture taking , and other probing by the space vehicle . at long last , in November , Philae will be release to essay to land on the comet . What do we fuck about the comet already ? Aside from having a natural language - twister of a name , it ’s irregular physical object roughly 3 kilometers wide and 5 kilometer across that looksvaguely like a rubber ducky .
We already talk about when the European Space Agency put together a relative ordered series imagecomparing the comet to famous buildings and mountains :
But you know what you ’re really curious about is if a Borg Cube could be hiding behind one . gratefully , Christopher Becke want to know , too , so put together asame - scalecompilation of the comet compare to a few noted quad - faring object from Star Trek :
But even that was n’t enough — after all , if you ’re seem at all thing Star Trek , it ’s a natural lengthiness to contemplate Star Wars , too . Which of course mean set if this comet could contain a hidden home for a outer space slug :
What other comparisons can we make ? Here ’s the same , nicely oriented photograph of the comet :
It ’s roughly five kilometers along . Mix up some more comparisons — how large is it compare to a Death Star ? How about mix in some Stargate and compare it to Atlantis ? Bring on your pappa culture science references !
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