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To: Crazieman
Clumps of rock and various ices. Dirty snowball.

NASA Reports both comets to be dry.

9 posted on 03/28/2005 11:29:59 PM PST by Swordmaker
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To: Swordmaker; Fred Nerks
NASA Reports both comets to be dry.

Since Deep Impact (dry) and Rosetta (wet) had different results, and Deep Impact's look at Tempel 1 differed from what it saw with other comets, it seems we might have different types of comets, as well as heterogeneities within comets. This wouldn't be so odd, considering the variation in other objects (meteorites, planets, etc.)

12 posted on 09/24/2005 4:03:00 PM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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