The landing of the Philae robotic space device on 12 November at 67P / Tsiriomof / Geraimenko was declared the NOXXX achievement of the year that leaves, from the Physics World Review issued by the London-based Physics Institute.
His adventurous landing robot – laboratory was considered fundamental to space science, although the Philae ran out of battery as it bounced around the comet's bumpy surface several times and finally landed in a shadowy spot that wouldn't allow it to be recharged by solar radiation.
He did, however, collect and send valuable scientific data to the Earth, and it can not be ruled out, at some point within 2015, that he "be resurrected".
The list of scientific ... miracles
Ten for 2014 complements several other important achievements from various fields of physics such as:
* Detection of neutrinos from nuclear reactions in the "heart" of Sun by the international research consortium Borexino.
* A laser-assisted experiment at the US National Ignition Facility (NIF) brought nuclear fusion closer to realization and thus a new source of cheap energys.
* The creation by British and American scientists of the first acoustic radius of attraction that can attract an object through sound waves.
* Challenge from an international team of mini-explosions of super nova-type explosions in the lab.
* The measurement by Israelis researchers for the first time the extremely weak magnetic interaction between two electrons.
* The creation by a Russian and American scientist of a new holographic memory, which allows the storage of data in magnetic holograms.
* Compression of quantum data by Canadian researchers.
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