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NASA's Deep Impact Probe Slams Into Tempel 1 Comet
Foxnews ^ | Monday, July 04, 2005 | Associated Press

Posted on 07/03/2005 11:10:41 PM PDT by msjhall

PASADENA, Calif. — A NASA space probe was bearing down on its comet target Sunday in a suicide mission scientists hoped would provide new insight into the origins of the solar system.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: comet; deepimpact; nasa
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To: RightWhale

Where is it at?


21 posted on 07/03/2005 11:40:58 PM PDT by msjhall
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To: isom35

I searched all over cable TV to find any news, any reports of this event.....
Nothin honey......
so sad
Nothing on MSTV...........
I am a bad grandma.....
I kept my 11 year old grandson up to 2am to see a once in a life time event...
We watched it on the internet.... on my computer...because it is the only access I had...


22 posted on 07/03/2005 11:44:46 PM PDT by Thinkin
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To: Thinkin
go here, live thread
23 posted on 07/03/2005 11:46:01 PM PDT by RightWhale (withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty)
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To: RightWhale

Thank you !!!


24 posted on 07/03/2005 11:52:09 PM PDT by Thinkin
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To: Thinkin
I searched all over cable TV to find any news, any reports of this event..... Nothin honey......

Actually Foxs News broke in with a news alert and reported the impact and showed the spectacular image of the impacter hitting the comet. On the NASA Channel the head of the mission was almost giddy at the picture. One comment was that the amount of debris coming away from the comet was much more than anticipated.

He also mentioned that because of the small size of the comet it has limited gravity. So, the impact, explosion, debris movement is all happening in slow motion.

Quite a successful night for NASA

25 posted on 07/03/2005 11:52:12 PM PDT by technomage
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To: msjhall

A totally irrellevent and useless experiment conducted at the public expense.


26 posted on 07/04/2005 12:04:16 AM PDT by A6M3
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To: technomage

I was talking to my daughter in California and she told me that Fox had cut in with a small mention of the event.. but it must have been local to that area... nothing here...no mention of anything in the midwest...I may have missed it..I was searching channels like a mad woman... ;-(


27 posted on 07/04/2005 12:05:13 AM PDT by Thinkin
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To: softwarecreator

We've had a live thread going all day:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1435717/posts


28 posted on 07/04/2005 12:05:25 AM PDT by Howlin
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To: technomage
CNN was carrying it live
29 posted on 07/04/2005 12:06:35 AM PDT by lunarbicep ("Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve." - G. B. Shaw)
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To: msjhall

What channel is this on?


30 posted on 07/04/2005 12:06:46 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (••• ••• •••)
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To: msjhall

Searching for "live thread" would have brought it right up.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;s=live%20thread


31 posted on 07/04/2005 12:08:00 AM PDT by Howlin
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To: citizencon
Let's hope the comet does not retaliate.

Please.

We need to deal with the Gamelons before any Comet Empire ships show up.

</Starblazers reference>

32 posted on 07/04/2005 12:08:03 AM PDT by Hoplite
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To: A6M3
A totally irrellevent and useless experiment conducted at the public expense.

BAH!

I got MY money's worth.

33 posted on 07/04/2005 12:09:43 AM PDT by Howlin
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To: Howlin

Did you?


34 posted on 07/04/2005 12:11:06 AM PDT by A6M3
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To: A6M3
"A totally irrellevent and useless experiment conducted at the public expense."

Untrue, and uninformed.

This experiment is yet another confirmation in another technical realm that we can intercept high-speed objects (the comet is traveling several times faster than the fastest manmade ICBM). So for missile-defense, it has value.

Likewise, learning precisely how far we can tweak the orbits of large objects is valuable, as is learning more about the composition of comets, especially should we need to alter or destroy one some day (e.g. one on an Earth impact trajectory).

You have to start somewhere, after all.

35 posted on 07/04/2005 12:12:40 AM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: A6M3

Not only is this going to shed light on the makeup of comets and perhaps the early solar system, this experiment proved once and for all the ability of the United States protect the planet from spaceborne threats.

You misspelled irrelevant.


36 posted on 07/04/2005 12:15:04 AM PDT by Crazieman (6-23-2005, Establishment of the United Socialist States of America)
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To: A6M3

The scientific knowledge that will be gained from this was worth every penny spent.


37 posted on 07/04/2005 12:16:33 AM PDT by dc-zoo
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To: Southack
Dear leaders of Syria, Iran, and North Korea. Other countires celebrate their independence days with fireworks. We celebrate ours by blowing up part of the Solar System. ;)
38 posted on 07/04/2005 12:17:42 AM PDT by Heatseeker ("I sort of like liberals now. They’re kind of cute when they’re shivering and afraid." - Ann Coulter)
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To: Heatseeker

Yeah.. eat you heart out "camel jockies" and kimmy.


39 posted on 07/04/2005 12:20:07 AM PDT by dc-zoo
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To: A6M3
A totally irrellevent and useless experiment conducted at the public expense.

Your lack of imagination is only exceeded by your ignorance.

40 posted on 07/04/2005 12:20:30 AM PDT by hole_n_one
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