- November 5, 2014
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The landing place of the robot “Fila” on the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko has been called “Agilkiya.” This decision was taken after processing several thousands of offers from people around the world who participated in the contest.
The name of the island in the river bed continues Nile Egyptian subjects mission.
The robot will be launched to comet with the spacecraft “Rosetta” on November 12.
If successful, this will be the first soft landing on an artificial object is a celestial body.
Experts of the European Space Agency in the control center in Darmstadt, hoping to get signal the successful landing on November 12 at about 16:00 GMT.
Earlier planting area designated simply “J”. Agilkiya Island on the Nile River, in whose honor was named the landing site, known for being in the middle of the XX century it was moved to the building, including the famous temple of Isis, from the island of Philae, flooded during the construction of the Aswan Dam.
seven-hour descent
On the island of Philae was also found ancient obelisk, which, coupled with the Rosetta stone allowed scientists to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics.
The proposal to name the landing site “Agilkiya” received from 150 people. The winner was Frenchman Alexander Brust.
Each participant had to write a short essay, and work Brust judges liked most of all.
The winner will travel to Darmstadt to watch the landing of the robot.
“Rosetta” will be in the 580 million km from the Earth, when will launch “Fila” to the comet.
It is assumed that the descent takes about seven hours.
If the robot will be able to cling to the surface of a celestial body, he will hold a series of experiments to analyze the structure and composition of the comet.
The data will be transferred to the robot on the “Rosetta”, and then – to the Earth.
Scientists believe that comets are preserved samples of matter, not undergone changes since the birth of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago.
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