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Deep Impact gets first look at Hartley 2
Spaceflight Now ^
| 11/4/2010
| Spaceflight Now Staff
Posted on 11/04/2010 12:26:06 PM PDT by cabojoe
NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft flew 700 kilometers, or 435 miles, from comet Hartley 2 on Thursday morning. These five images were the first snapshots returned from the probe more than 13 million miles away from Earth.
All five images were captured with Deep Impact's medium-resolution camera between 1358 GMT and 1401 GMT.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; comet; comethartley2; deepimpact; hartley2; nasa
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Photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD
Photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD
Photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD
Photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD
Photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD
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posted on
11/04/2010 12:26:08 PM PDT
by
cabojoe
To: cabojoe
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posted on
11/04/2010 12:29:11 PM PDT
by
ken5050
(I don't need sex.....the government screws me every day..)
To: SunkenCiv
Glowing-Sweet-Potato-In-Space PING
To: ken5050
Shaped like one of my dog’s toys.
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posted on
11/04/2010 12:31:03 PM PDT
by
brytlea
(Jesus loves me, this I know.)
To: cabojoe
Cool propulsion system! Warp drive?
To: cabojoe
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posted on
11/04/2010 12:31:47 PM PDT
by
Eagles6
To: brytlea
Kentucky Fried Chicken.......Extra crispy!!
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
11/04/2010 12:34:13 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
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posted on
11/04/2010 12:35:21 PM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Greetings Jacques. The revolution is coming)
To: ken5050
Get your eyes checked...it's definitely Romulan.
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posted on
11/04/2010 12:38:34 PM PDT
by
JPG
(Memo to GOP: DO NOT GO WOBBLY...NO COMPROMISE...REJECT SOCIALISM.)
To: ken5050
The leg bone had to end up somewhere...
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posted on
11/04/2010 12:41:24 PM PDT
by
cabojoe
To: cabojoe
Hubbel's Hi-res camera has an even finer resolution image...............
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posted on
11/04/2010 12:43:41 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(WOULD SOMEBODY PLEASE GIVE MEGHAN MCCAIN A BOX OF KRISPY KREMES SO SHE'LL SHUT THE HELL UP?!)
To: cabojoe
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posted on
11/04/2010 12:44:06 PM PDT
by
John 3_19-21
(The Tea Party will be heard Mr. Speaker!)
To: cabojoe
That is super cool.
I blew the images up to get a good look and can’t really interpret what I see. The bulbous ends are quite rough and the center section relatively smoother as if worn down by rotational abrasion.
Then there is the lit up end. I think the tail precedes the comet, but when I see it I can’t make any sense out of that.
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posted on
11/04/2010 12:47:53 PM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Greetings Jacques. The revolution is coming)
To: cabojoe
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posted on
11/04/2010 12:49:28 PM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: cabojoe
It's not just the peanut shape that's unexpected, but this thing is rapidly tumbling end-over-end as it speeds along at around 27K mph...
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posted on
11/04/2010 12:54:07 PM PDT
by
Joe Brower
(Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
To: cabojoe
The mission is the EPOXI mission.
It is a low cost mission that uses the already in-flight Deep Impact spacecraft
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posted on
11/04/2010 12:54:23 PM PDT
by
kidd
To: martin_fierro
Maybe we can send Meghan McCain to investigate..................
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posted on
11/04/2010 12:56:40 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(WOULD SOMEBODY PLEASE GIVE MEGHAN MCCAIN A BOX OF KRISPY KREMES SO SHE'LL SHUT THE HELL UP?!)
To: ken5050
Capt. Kirk can take a shuttlecraft, see, and adjust it’s propulsion system so that it will blow itself up just before Mr. Scott transports him back to the bridge of the Enterprise. Then he (Kirk) guides the shuttlecraft into the object’s larger end. Problem solved.
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posted on
11/04/2010 12:57:23 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
To: martin_fierro
It doesn’t look like a dirty snowball.
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