To: hophead
The diameter of the crater in the last few images was given as 1500 meters.
8 posted on
07/04/2005 4:29:08 PM PDT by
SunTzuWu
To: SunTzuWu
Thanks for the info.
That makes the crater about 4921 feet in diameter. I kind of scaled the object as 1/13th the diameter of the crater. That would make the target about 378 feet left to right. Even if you give or take 100 feet, or 1000 feet even, to hit that is just freakin amazing. Comet Tempel 1 was 83 million miles from Earth when the "impactor" hit today. Impact Velocity was 23,000 mph.
These flight controllers, engineers and scientists who made this possible are an amazing group of people. They are the seldom recognized role models of our society. The NEA should set aside time for this in daily instruction of our school children.
My deepest congratulations to all those responsible for this unbelievable feat of science.
12 posted on
07/04/2005 4:55:16 PM PDT by
hophead
("Enjoy Every Sandwich")
To: SunTzuWu
The diameter of the crater in the last few images was given as 1500 meters. Sounds bigger than what was expected. Maybe the body is softer than it looked.
18 posted on
07/04/2005 5:34:19 PM PDT by
RightWhale
(withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty)
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