Can We Land On A Comet?

Answer 1

Certainly. Just a matter of building a craft designed to do so. You can launch the craft so that it rendezvous with the comet when it is beyond Jupiter at which point it is frozen. No tail or debris that could destroy the craft. Then the craft could leap frog around the comets surface and explore. Then, as the comet comes closer to the sun and heats up, some very interesting things would begin to happen...

Answer 2

the two those 2 movies are phony. they have already landed on an asteroid and smashed right into a comet, so preseumably given adequate time they could stumble on a thank you to deliver people. it may well be an prolonged cramped journey. Costing many many billions of greenbacks. The astronauts occurring the Moon have been already in the image voltaic wind, that's frequently for stuff like ions. gases and microscopic specs of airborne dirt and dirt. that's what comet tails are made out of. very nearly not something. touchdown on comets isn't secure the two. What if some thing erupts? there is risky stuff trapped interior that could vaporize and burst up from the warmth. And any little grain of speck traveling at many kilometers consistent with 2d could desire to flow straight away by using your spacesuit and kill you. So, possibly, I dunno. And as for Armegeddon, asteroids are greater like the moon, inert, yet small, and with incredibly low gravity, so as that they might pick a thank you to maintain them on, like upward pointing jets or some thing.

Answer 3

I would say no because of the debri that comes off of a comet. At this time a small pebble in orbit around the Earth can penetrate the hull of our shuttle. Even with reinforcement I do not believe that any human would be able to survive the trip with the currently level of technology.

Answer 4

Yes we have the understanding of physical laws to do this minutely and highly skilfully. But the science and wonders just inside our little finger is MUCH more relevant and useful for the public to understand.
Humanity has little time left, a matter of years before irreversible decline according to the most objective yet caring scientists. So why play billion dollar space games when we need to care for Life on Earth first?

This can only be done by stopping the irrelevant games in space and creating a huge global campaign to care for each other and the biosphere before it's too late and irreversible human extinction sets in. It's all due to looking erroneously for happiness in things around us instead of the quiet thought-free mind we can learn. This finds happiness 24/7 INSIDE OURSELVES, not in childish 'consumerism to get happy' and ruinous space games to sidetrack us still further!!! Leave 'space', join 'Save the Race' (i.e. anyone can learn mind quietening and there's the happiness, right inside). Let BBC start maturing to the point of focussing on survival of the species rather than being sidetracked by space and other news of our follies.

Answer 5

We can certainly catch up with them.

I am pretty sure in a few year's time we could land on them, however, the weak graviuty of the comet would make it harder.

Answer 6

We could crash on a comet but as the comet gets near us it should traveling at 100,000 mph. I don't think we have any thing that travels that fast yet.

Answer 7

Not with the state of our current technology, although a probe was crashed onto a comet recently.

Answer 8

Yes

Answer 9

Sure, but it wouldn't have much gravity to hold you on. Also if you were nearing the sun, the gases burning off might be a big problem.

Answer 10

When I saw this 8 years ago I wasn't sure, but now I can say with confidence, yes we can!