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Space fireworks

 
 
Equus
 
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Reply Tue 5 Jul, 2005 09:58 am
Oh great, now we've made all the comets mad, and they know where we live...
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Frank Apisa
 
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Reply Tue 5 Jul, 2005 10:02 am
littlek wrote:
I wish they'd stick with this kind of thing instead of Bush's 'put a man on Mars' plans.


Even if the man they put there is Bush?
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AngeliqueEast
 
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Reply Tue 5 Jul, 2005 10:02 am
And they are coming after us!
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littlek
 
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Reply Tue 5 Jul, 2005 05:32 pm
Frank Apisa wrote:
littlek wrote:
I wish they'd stick with this kind of thing instead of Bush's 'put a man on Mars' plans.


Even if the man they put there is Bush?


Oooohhhh, no, that'd be fun!
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moondoggy
 
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Reply Tue 5 Jul, 2005 08:55 pm
actually my horoscope is feeling decidedly deformed this morning too
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AngeliqueEast
 
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Reply Tue 5 Jul, 2005 09:09 pm
That astrologer does not know what she talking about. She just wants her fifteen minutes of fame. Nothing is going to detour what man has already unleashed on the world.
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moondoggy
 
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Reply Wed 6 Jul, 2005 12:58 am
perhaps... but then why has the circumambulation of my bi-corporeal conjunction gone retrograde? It's freakin' out my dodekatamorian aspects man
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AngeliqueEast
 
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Reply Wed 6 Jul, 2005 03:28 am
Know what you mean moondoggy, it is kind of wobbly. lol
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satt fs
 
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Reply Wed 6 Jul, 2005 05:45 pm
Very clear image..

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpegMod/PIA02137_modest.jpg
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littlek
 
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Reply Wed 6 Jul, 2005 05:49 pm
So, what have they learned....?
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satt fs
 
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Reply Wed 6 Jul, 2005 05:57 pm
They may have missed the crater made from their view.
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littlek
 
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Reply Wed 6 Jul, 2005 05:58 pm
Satt, I'm not understanding your last post.

I checked some websites, they haven't posted any new data really.
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satt fs
 
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Reply Wed 6 Jul, 2005 06:02 pm
Comet's huge plume hides the crater

Time will be needed to analyse the plume.
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littlek
 
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Reply Wed 6 Jul, 2005 06:04 pm
Oh. So, you think the plume hid the crater until it passed from view?
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satt fs
 
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Reply Wed 6 Jul, 2005 06:07 pm
The spacecraft does not orbit around Tempel 1.
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littlek
 
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Reply Wed 6 Jul, 2005 06:35 pm
Does the comet rotate?
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satt fs
 
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Reply Wed 6 Jul, 2005 06:41 pm
I do not know. It perhaps rotates.
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satt fs
 
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Reply Wed 6 Jul, 2005 06:46 pm
In any case, "[a]fter its shields protect it from the comet's dust tail passing overhead, the flyby spacecraft turns to look at the comet again."

mission overview
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littlek
 
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Reply Wed 6 Jul, 2005 06:52 pm
Aha....

Quote:
Size, shape, rotation: Comet Tempel 1's mean nucleus diameter is about 6 km. Its elongation is apparently more than 3:1, as judged by the comet's lightcurve. That would make the nucleus's own gravity field fairly unstable over the long term. Large satellites able to raise tidal forces would be removed from orbit, many of them falling gently onto the nucleus as boulders, and only coma dust and small debris would remain in orbit. The rotation period appears to be 41.5 hours, but the rotation axis remains unknown.


Meta Research on Deep Impact
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AngeliqueEast
 
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Reply Wed 6 Jul, 2005 07:23 pm
littlek wrote:
So, what have they learned....?


That they can do what they did for one thing.
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