article_snippet.sent: But in a paper published online by the journal Science, the team led by Hans-Ulrich Auster at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, said Hans-Ulrich Auster at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany data — which benefited from three unexpected bounces that allowed Philae to collect more results than planned — don't support this theory. '
article_snippet.sent: Allan H. Treiman, a senior scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas, who wasn't involved in the study, said the results credibly suggest other forces were responsible.
article_snippet.sent: The findings are part of a series of scientific results obtained by scientists analyzing data collected by the Philae lander and its mothership Rosetta, which is flying alongside the comet on its elliptical orbit around the sun.
article_snippet.sent: Initially, Philae was seen to rotate slowly during the descent to Agilkia.
article_snippet.sent: Philae landed and then bounced, rotating significantly faster as the momentum of the internal flywheel was transferred to the lander .
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