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Amazing science ... I can't wait to hear more (assuming more can be gleaned by this spacecraft). The article also gave me a chuckle - "after an errant cosmic r

by smoyer 12y ago

Amazing science ... I can't wait to hear more (assuming more can be gleaned by this spacecraft). The article also gave me a chuckle - "after an errant cosmic ray". If that cosmic ray had behaved itself and gone where it was told we wouldn't have had any problems!

theophrastus 12y ago
"errant" just means "wandering", from the Latin form iterare. It's where we get, for example, "a Knight errant" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight-errant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight-errant), sometimes spelled "arrant". To be mistaken as 'in error' was a latter meaning which became fused.