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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.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: comet; deepimpact; nasa
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posted on
07/03/2005 11:10:41 PM PDT
by
msjhall
To: msjhall
Why do we care about this when we have homeless people starving to death in downtown LA and people dying of AIDS?< / just to piss you off>
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posted on
07/03/2005 11:14:30 PM PDT
by
zarf
To: msjhall
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posted on
07/03/2005 11:15:52 PM PDT
by
Crazieman
(6-23-2005, Establishment of the United Socialist States of America)
To: msjhall
Yeah, still "breaking news" no info yet. This is interesting and I cannot wait to see the images and story when it is able to be presented.
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posted on
07/03/2005 11:16:03 PM PDT
by
softwarecreator
(Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
To: zarf
The most weighty of these characters will be launched up as the next impactor in any follow-up mission. So they are not forgotten, you see.
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posted on
07/03/2005 11:18:34 PM PDT
by
GSlob
To: Crazieman
Great picture. Is the bright light the impact?
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posted on
07/03/2005 11:19:48 PM PDT
by
msjhall
To: msjhall
Yes, the rayed points contracting to the comet nucleus is the impactor. I'm hunting for the medium resolution images, they look better.
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posted on
07/03/2005 11:20:35 PM PDT
by
Crazieman
(6-23-2005, Establishment of the United Socialist States of America)
To: msjhall
Let's hope the comet does not retaliate.
To: Crazieman
Some of the last images of the impactor spacecraft, now vaporized:
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posted on
07/03/2005 11:22:00 PM PDT
by
Crazieman
(6-23-2005, Establishment of the United Socialist States of America)
To: Crazieman
Medium Resolution Instrument:
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posted on
07/03/2005 11:23:44 PM PDT
by
Crazieman
(6-23-2005, Establishment of the United Socialist States of America)
To: zarf
imagine the irony if, because of deep impact, the comet is now on a collision course with.......downtown L.A.!
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posted on
07/03/2005 11:30:31 PM PDT
by
isom35
To: isom35
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posted on
07/03/2005 11:31:40 PM PDT
by
Crazieman
(6-23-2005, Establishment of the United Socialist States of America)
To: msjhall
I was watching the comet through 10XS50 Binoc's. At impact the image went from a fuzzy white bloob to a "star like"
image. 30 minutes later the image was still very bright.
Once in a life time event.
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posted on
07/03/2005 11:31:57 PM PDT
by
TaMoDee
To: citizencon
It's my understanding that the Democrats are preparing a statement comparing the use of the impactor on Comet Tempel 1 to the firebombings of Dresden and Tokyo.
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posted on
07/03/2005 11:32:48 PM PDT
by
Tennessee_Bob
("Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! We willna be fooled again!")
To: TaMoDee
I missed it - complete severe thunderstorm cloud cover.
I got lightning rather than celestial fireworks.
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posted on
07/03/2005 11:33:30 PM PDT
by
Crazieman
(6-23-2005, Establishment of the United Socialist States of America)
To: Crazieman
"I missed it - complete severe thunderstorm cloud cove."
It's pretty hazy here.
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posted on
07/03/2005 11:34:58 PM PDT
by
msjhall
To: msjhall
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posted on
07/03/2005 11:35:46 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty)
To: TaMoDee
You might have the first eyewitness report. Go over to the live thread.
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posted on
07/03/2005 11:36:45 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty)
To: RightWhale
"Miss the live thread?"
Yes, I tried to find it at the last minute.
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posted on
07/03/2005 11:38:15 PM PDT
by
msjhall
To: msjhall
It's not too late. Many are still there.
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posted on
07/03/2005 11:40:20 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty)
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