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No Images of Comet ISON from Deep Impact/EPOXI Spacecraft Due to Communication Loss
universetoday.com ^ | September 4, 2013 | Nancy Atkinson on

Posted on 09/04/2013 1:37:29 PM PDT by BenLurkin

“We have not received any of our expected observations of comet ISON due to a spacecraft problem,” A’Hearn wrote in an update on the EXPOXI website. “Communication with the spacecraft was lost some time between August 11 and August 14 (we only talk to the spacecraft about once per week). The last communication was on August 8. After considerable effort, the team on August 30 determined the cause of the problem. The team is now trying to determine how best to try to recover communication.”

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TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: 2012s1; comet2012s1; cometison; greencomet; ison
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Space is a hostile place.
1 posted on 09/04/2013 1:37:29 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

If our government was expecting Hammerfall would they tell the peasants?


2 posted on 09/04/2013 1:41:10 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: BenLurkin

It’s probably under warranty, just bring it back for a refund.


3 posted on 09/04/2013 1:41:38 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Black Agnes
I'll get my tin foil hat

4 posted on 09/04/2013 1:43:19 PM PDT by slumber1 (My real name is Rusty Shackleford)
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To: BenLurkin

The DOOMTards are going to flip out over this one.


5 posted on 09/04/2013 1:43:24 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature ($1.84 - The price of a gallon of gas on Jan. 20th, 2009.)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

Don’t say “planet x” too loud...


6 posted on 09/04/2013 1:46:48 PM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: BenLurkin
How convenient that is.
7 posted on 09/04/2013 1:47:55 PM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: cuban leaf

lol. now you gone and done it....


8 posted on 09/04/2013 1:49:08 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature ($1.84 - The price of a gallon of gas on Jan. 20th, 2009.)
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To: BenLurkin

Obviously it’s an alien ship disguised as a comet, and when our probe approached too close, they jammed our communications.

/s


9 posted on 09/04/2013 1:49:19 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

Yes!! that is the only possible reason!

/s too


10 posted on 09/04/2013 1:50:51 PM PDT by Mr. K (Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and then Democrat Talking Points.)
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To: BenLurkin
screwed photo: screwed screwed.jpg

We are

11 posted on 09/04/2013 1:52:14 PM PDT by onona (The Earth is the insane asylum for the universe)
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To: Black Agnes

If our government was expecting Hammerfall would they tell the peasants?

No they wouldn’t and after the impact if they survived they would exploit it for all it’s worth...

They would probably claim it was second impact or something....


12 posted on 09/04/2013 1:53:11 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

Nibiru.

There, I said it. :-D


13 posted on 09/04/2013 1:54:02 PM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: BenLurkin

There’s a pretty good app for the iPhone to track Ison.
Search for, “Ison 2013,” in the iTunes store. It tracks Ison from the ground or from space.


14 posted on 09/04/2013 1:55:47 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (IRS = Internal Revenge Service)
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To: Black Agnes

I’ve long wondered why that book never became a movie.


15 posted on 09/04/2013 1:57:09 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: cuban leaf

I for one welcome our Annunaki Overlords! 8-}


16 posted on 09/04/2013 1:57:41 PM PDT by adaven
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To: DuncanWaring

The racial/cannibal subplot.


17 posted on 09/04/2013 1:58:05 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: BenLurkin; Black Agnes; cuban leaf; IllumiNaughtyByNature; slumber1; Tijeras_Slim; Boogieman; ...
So here's the dilemma:

When do I submit my Opus ?

Too early = Jackwagon

Too late = well.......you get the point

18 posted on 09/04/2013 1:58:14 PM PDT by onona (The Earth is the insane asylum for the universe)
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To: Boogieman

19 posted on 09/04/2013 1:58:26 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

No, it’s obviously a brown dwarf that’s coming to kill us in November of 2011..wait, we’re still here?
Nevermind.
/ bad joke.


20 posted on 09/04/2013 2:04:27 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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