ROSSETA

Rosetta (spacecraft)

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Rosetta is a robotic space probe built and launched by the European Space Agency. Along with Philae, its lander module,Rosetta is performing a detailed study of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (67P).^[6][7]

Rosetta was launched on 2 March 2004 on an Ariane 5 rocket and reached the comet on 6 August 2014,^[8] becoming the first spacecraft to orbit a comet.^[9][10][11] (Previous missions had conducted successful flybys of seven other comets.^[12]) It is one of ESA's Horizon 2000 cornerstone missions.^[13] The spacecraft consistsRosetta orbiter, which features 12 instruments, and the Philae lander, with nine additional instruments.^[14] The Rosetta mission will orbit 67P for 17 months and is designed to complete the most detailed study of a comet ever attempted. The spacecraft is controlled from the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC), in Darmstadt, Germany.^[15] The planning for the operation of the scientific payload, together with the data retrieval, calibration, archiving and distribution, is performed from the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), inVillanueva de la Cañada, near Madrid, Spain.^[16] It has been estimated that in the decade preceding 2014, some 2,000 people assisted in the mission in some capacity.^[17]

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The probe is named after the Rosetta Stone, a stele of Egyptian origin featuring a decree in three scripts. The lander is named after the Philae obelisk, which bears a bilingual Greek and Egyptian hieroglyphic inscription. A comparison of its hieroglyphs with those on the Rosetta Stone catalysed the deciphering of the Egyptian writing system.

ROSSETA

Rosetta is a robotic space probe built and launched by the European Space Agency. Along with Philae, its lander module,Rosetta is performing a detailed study of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (67P).^[6][7]

Rosetta was launched on 2 March 2004 on an Ariane 5 rocket and reached the comet on 6 August 2014,^[8] becoming the first spacecraft to orbit a comet.^[9][10][11] (Previous missions had conducted successful flybys of seven other comets.^[12]) It is one of ESA's Horizon 2000 cornerstone missions.^[13] The spacecraft consists of the Rosetta orbiter, which features 12 instruments, and the Philae lander, with nine additional instruments.^[14] The Rosetta mission will orbit 67P for 17 months and is designed to complete the most detailed study of a comet ever attempted. The spacecraft is controlled from the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC), in Darmstadt, Germany.^[15] The planning for the operation of the scientific payload, together with the data retrieval, calibration, archiving and distribution, is performed from the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), inVillanueva de la Cañada, near Madrid, Spain.^[16] It has been estimated that in the decade preceding 2014, some 2,000 people assisted in the mission in some capacity.^[17]

The probe is named after the Rosetta Stone, a stele of Egyptian origin featuring a decree in three scripts. The lander is named after the Philae obelisk, which bears a bilingual Greek and Egyptian hieroglyphic inscription. A comparison of its hieroglyphs with those on the Rosetta Stone catalysed the deciphering of the Egyptian writing system. Similarly, it is hoped that these spacecraft will result in better understanding of comets and the early Solar System.^[18][19] In a more direct analogy to its namesake, the Rosetta spacecraft also carries a micro-etched nickel alloy Rosetta disc donated by the Long Now Foundation inscribed with 13,000 pages of text in 1200 languages.^[20]

The spacecraft performed two asteroid flyby missions on its way to the comet.^[21] In 2007, Rosetta also performed a Marsswing-by (flyby).^[22] The craft completed its flyby of asteroid 2867 Šteins

MONKEY MAN

The Monkey Man of New Delhi is a monster which was reported roaming Delhi in mid-2001.

In May 2001, reports began to circulate in the Indian capital New Delhi of a strange monkey-like creature that was appearing at night and attacking people.^[1] Eyewitness accounts were often inconsistent, but tended to describe the creature as about four feet (120 cm) tall,^[2]covered in thick black hair, with a metal helmet, metal claws, glowing red eyes and three buttons on its chest; others, however, described the Monkey-man as having a more vulpine snout, and being up to eight feet tall, and muscular; it would leap from building to building like aparkour enthusiast. Still others have described it as a bandaged figure or as a helmeted thing. Theories on the nature of the Monkey Man ranged from an Avatar of the Hindu god Hanuman, to an Indian version of Bigfoot.^[3]

Many people reported being scratched, and two^[2] (by some reports, three) people even died when they leapt from the tops of buildings or fell down stairwells in a panic caused by what they thought was the attacker. At one point, exasperated police even issued artist's impression drawings in an attempt to catch the creature.

The entire incident has been described as an example of mass hysteria.