twinstead wrote:white hot devil gas
Lance (LBM™) wrote:twinstead wrote:white hot devil gas
Mmmmm... Jalapeños...
Mr. Manly wrote:Oh and somebody already talked to their anonymous Nasa scientist buddy in Houston and even though he was told to keep quiet he said
Nasa is redirecting resources like crazy since the impact.
That can only mean doom is right around the corner!
Some MORON on Guess Where wrote:Finally - an authoritative voice from Response from NASA
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Breaking: NASA claims comet "Alive" and erratically off course - not sure what to do next!
This just in from APe:
After several days of silence, NASA head, Dr. Robert Zubkin, finally broke the ice with this stunning proclamation: "We have done something terrible I fear. This comet was ALIVE! -- I mean to say it was a living organism of some sort, and we almost killed the thing! Now it is hissing and spraying and veering of its normal course, and if it gets wind of where the bullet came from, we fear if may head right to earth! At this point we are leaving it in the hands of the military." When questioned further, Zubkin said, "We have no further comment at this time."
This, coming from the top, is a jaw-dropping revelation and is sure to reverberate around the globe spreading panic and fear. What have we done!
www.APe/agoodwoowoothread/mmmkay.com
Candy wrote:I sat at home alone watching it on NASA TV. My friends don't get into Astronomy. Yet, when they see something on the News, they think of me and have the need to discuss. No one's mention Deep Impact.
On the morning News, they only mentioned the Russian Astrologist suing NASA. The anchor's sure chuckled about that story. "And NASA has had no comment."
Physorg wrote:From the current analysis, it appears most likely that the impactor did not create a large new zone of activity and may have failed to liberate a large quantity of pristine material from beneath the surface.
The impact surprised researchers in both its magnitude and its structure. The sequence of images from the Deep Impact mother ship shows a small flash, a slight delay and then a larger flash, said Peter Schultz of Brown University, a project co-investigator.
That suggests that the 820-pound impactor, which struck the surface of the comet at a speed of 6.3 miles per second, burrowed into a powdery layer in the nucleus before encountering a solid surface of ice or rock below it, Schultz said.
Researchers in two control rooms on Hawaii's Big Island (on Mauna Kea and in Hilo) were able to keep enough composure amid an almost giddy excitement to perform a preliminary analysis of the data. They concluded from the mid-infrared spectroscopic observations that there was strong evidence for silicates or rocky material exposed by the impact.
New Scientist wrote:NASA's Deep Impact may fail to live up to its billing as the first mission to look inside a comet. Computer processing designed to correct the spacecraft's defocused camera cannot fully correct the images taken just after impact.
But scientists are still in contact with the spacecraft and are re-calibrating HRI, ... "We still hope to see the crater," A’Hearn told New Scientist.
Universe Today July 11 wrote:Based on preliminary X-ray analysis, O'Brien estimates that several tens of thousands of tons of material were released, enough to bury Penn State's football field under 30 feet of comet dust. Observations and analysis are ongoing at the Swift Mission Operations Center at Penn State University as well as in Italy and the United Kingdom.
Universe today July 15 wrote:From the current analysis, it appears most likely that the impactor did not create a large new zone of activity and may have failed to liberate a large quantity of pristine material from beneath the surface.
Planetary Society wrote:At the European Southern Observatory in Chile, astronomer Hermann Boehnhardt headed a campaign to use all seven of the ESO telescopes to watch Tempel 1, at every wavelength of light that was not blocked by the Earth's atmosphere. "For a number of days after the impact you have this ejecta cloud going to the southwest, and this disappeared after three or four days in the coma again, because the dust was blown off," he said.
Based upon the observations performed at ESO, Boehnhardt believes that Deep Impact had no lasting effect on Tempel 1. "The comet never went away from its normal state -- its [formerly] active regions were still active during the impact of course, and you can see the active regions shining through the ejecta cloud. It looks like the ejecta cloud was on top of something that was there all the time, before and after."
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