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On Target: NASA Rocket Slams Into Comet
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| 07/04/05
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Posted on 07/04/2005 8:49:59 AM PDT by KevinDavis
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Congrats to NASA!!!
To: RightWhale; Brett66; xrp; gdc314; anymouse; RadioAstronomer; NonZeroSum; jimkress; discostu; ...
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posted on
07/04/2005 8:51:01 AM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(the space/future belongs to the eagles, the earth/past to the groundhogs)
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
07/04/2005 8:56:47 AM PDT
by
GregB
(Thank you to all our Vets,past and present!)
To: KevinDavis
This is the kind of stuff NASA does so well. A great day for NASA and space science. Way to go!
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posted on
07/04/2005 8:57:06 AM PDT
by
Arkie2
(No, I never voted for Bill Clinton. I don't plan on voting Republican again!)
To: GregB
Stayed up to watch it. Kudos to JPL.
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
07/04/2005 9:16:54 AM PDT
by
ex-Texan
(Mathew 7:1 through 6)
To: Young Werther
This is quit a achievement, but I don't know the point of this mission. Are we going to give up on man flight and use space probes only? It is scientific curiosity or human hubris? This month is suppose to be the first shuttle launch since the Columbia disaster, and it will mark the beginning of end for the Shuttle project, due to end in 2010.
I want to know what is next, and will we finally bold go where no one has gone before, or continue to putter around in orbit with that white elephant the International Space Station. We need to decide if space is truly a limit on human endeavor or something we can conquer. Is space travel just to expensive and beyond our scientific capability or can the faith of a muster seed take us to the stars?
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posted on
07/04/2005 9:21:20 AM PDT
by
Kuehn12
(Kuehn12)
To: Kuehn12
NASA has been drifting and has been a political toy for Algore and others for a long time. However, this mission could be viewed as the first of the new NASA. This time, NASA will pay attention to PR. There is a lot of new stuff coming.
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posted on
07/04/2005 9:50:05 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty)
To: KevinDavis
So here's a picture:
It has this caption::
The projectile was released on its collision path on Sunday. Essentially, the washing machine-sized object was pushed into the path of the mountainous block of ice, dust and rock.
I guess I want to question the ice idea. This thing appears to be full of perfectly round craters. I don't think a block of ice would look like that if it were struck by some other object or objects.
ML/NJ
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posted on
07/04/2005 10:05:11 AM PDT
by
ml/nj
To: ml/nj
It also contains carbon compounds. It has all that would be needed to support life as we know it. On the moon, for example, where water still hasn't been found for sure, but where putting a colony would be a good idea otherwise.
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posted on
07/04/2005 10:08:18 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty)
To: ml/nj
The washing machine hit the pickle.
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posted on
07/04/2005 10:09:06 AM PDT
by
bannie
(The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
To: KevinDavis
I went to a dark sky site in California with a couple of friends last night. We had a 16" Newtonian telescope, but the comet was sooooo faint that it was a disappointment. Images from NASA's web site are much more satisfying.
However, there were some other things that were awesome! M13, The Swan, Lagoon, Triffid, Ring, The Veil, Jupiter, M81/M82... and, of course, wildflowers, bumble-bees and MOSQUITOS!!!
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posted on
07/04/2005 10:12:23 AM PDT
by
MarineBrat
(We are taxed twice as much by our idleness. -- Benjamin Franklin)
To: KevinDavis
I find it amusing that the AP seems to feel the need to remind everyone that it was unmanned.
Next time, send politicians. All of them.
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posted on
07/04/2005 10:16:49 AM PDT
by
Hank Rearden
(Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
To: MarineBrat
Would have been nice if the probe had had a second part that would have separated from the mother ship, stood back, and videoed the crash of the mother ship into the comet, then flown back to near earth to relay its pictures. Looking at it from earth is nice but we really could have used a 50-mile view.
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posted on
07/04/2005 10:19:35 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(No wonder the Southern Baptist Church threw Greer out: Only one god per church! [Ann Coulter])
To: Hank Rearden
You mean we didn't recruit an old time Japanese kamikaze pilot to do it?
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posted on
07/04/2005 10:20:24 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(No wonder the Southern Baptist Church threw Greer out: Only one god per church! [Ann Coulter])
To: MarineBrat
...bumble-bees and MOSQUITOS!!!...Here's what you need: Bug Suit
I spent many a mosquito-filled morning in one like this waiting on the side of the Shuttle landing strip for the Orbiter to land.
The mosquitoes and no-see-ums there will carry you away if you're not covered. I also had a pair of mesh gloves. Had to operate cameras so I couldn't just put my hands in my pockets.
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posted on
07/04/2005 10:20:29 AM PDT
by
FReepaholic
(When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading)
To: KevinDavis
Before:
After:
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posted on
07/04/2005 10:32:18 AM PDT
by
JOE6PAK
("a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.")
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
07/04/2005 10:36:00 AM PDT
by
Ricebug
To: tscislaw
That's a cool bug suit! I could have used it last evening. The skeeters were only bad for an hour or so, and then the bugs went away for the night.
We were at about 5300 feet, but the temp stayed fairly warm. I think it was about 60 deg. A very nice night for observing. The San Joaquin valley was very hazy though, and the light scatter was bad.
I never printed out a finder chart for the comet because my buddy said that he had the exact coordinates. Well then his digital setting circles on the 16" died, which made it a hard to find object. I pulled out my sky atlas and determined that the comet was about 3 deg. northeast of Spica, but all I could find there was a verrrry faint fuzzy. I'm guessing that was the comet because I swept all around there, and quadruple checked my coordinates on the sky map. We stayed till about midnight and then drove home 1.5/hrs. (yawn)
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posted on
07/04/2005 10:42:36 AM PDT
by
MarineBrat
(We are taxed twice as much by our idleness. -- Benjamin Franklin)
To: HiTech RedNeck
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posted on
07/04/2005 10:44:23 AM PDT
by
ASA Vet
(Boycott all stupid tag lines.)
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