Agilkia

The Rosetta mission's Philae lander target site on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko has been named Agilkia after the island.[1][2] Due to the harpoons that did not fire,[3] upon initial touchdown the lander took a huge bounce and then a smaller one before finally coming to rest perhaps a kilometer away from Agilkia.[4] The new site has been named Abydos, after the namesake city of Ancient Egypt.

References

  1. ↑ Platt, Jane (6 November 2014). "Rosetta Races Toward Comet Touchdown". NASA. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
  2. ↑ Knapton, Sarah (4 November 2014). "Historic Comet Landing Site Has a New Name: Agilkia". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  3. ↑ "ROSETTA AND PHILAE: ONE YEAR SINCE LANDING ON A COMET". ESA - European Space Agency. 12 November 2015.
  4. ↑ See article on Philae spacecraft.
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