It has landed Malcolm, seemed to happen right on the expected time of 16:02GMT.
Had to rewind the feed to see the actual moment, that what I missed, nevermind it was good to see the determination on the faces then the moment of confirmation.
Little concerning that the harpoons didn't fire, hopefully the screws are holding Philae down. I think they're considering another attempt to fire the harpoons.
A bit concerned about the annimated conversations and expressions in the operations centre. I can see some hand waving going on, but there are also some visual references to screwing motion so maybe that's what they are trying to do - use the screws to hold it down. Probably can't do much science on the surface if the hold is tenuous.
The anchoring harpoons failed to fire so it is not actually anchored to the comet, lets hope it doesn't get shaken loose.
Also the comet aliens have issued it with a parking ticket.
Amazing achievement.
It now sounds like it may have bounced and landed again!
A rough calculation from one of the members on the umsf forum thread suggested a 2 hour bounce would have been from a 0.3m/s bounce reaching an altitude of 530m.
Let's hope the second landing was legs down.
Doesn't look like there will be much info released until the press conference tonght - midnight AEDST I think.
The anchoring harpoons failed to fire so it is not actually anchored to the comet, lets hope it doesn't get shaken loose.
There seems to be conflicting reports, some say the harpoons didn't fire while others say that they did fire but were rewound all the way in. I guess this suggests the surface is REALLY soft which is also supported by the statements made at landing hinting that the legs had not 'pushed up' as much as predicted.
