Deep Impact gets first look at Hartley 2

Spaceflight Now ^ | 11/4/2010 | Spaceflight Now Staff

[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.

[The Comedian]

And suddenly, the probe went dark...

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[Bigh4u2]

It’s a walrus.

[Bigh4u2]

Ok. I take that back.

The top picture is a walrus.

Second picture is a seal.

Third picture is a dolphin.

[BenLurkin]

What do yo make of that smooth band in the middle. The result of some kind of collision?

[colorado tanker]

You say there's another Hartley out there and he's in outer space? When can you come in for a session . . . .

[stinkerpot65]

I can make a hat, or a broache, or a teredactyl.

[BenLurkin]

Very good!

[Godebert]

Very cool. You can model your own deep impact event using Purdue University's

Impact Calculator

[6ppc]

Definitely Klingon...

Nah! Looks more like a berserker to me.

[Godebert]

I just did an impact calculation for the Hartley comet assuming it is ice and hits in about 3,000 feet of water about a 1,000 miles from the coast. Here is just the tsunami data:

The impact-generated tsunami wave arrives approximately 4.74 hours after impact. Tsunami wave amplitude is between: 5.49 meters ( = 18 feet) and 11 meters ( = 36 feet).

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks martin_fierro and BenLurkin. Nice pics! Something glowing 'n' blowing. Too bad our APOD guy left FR.

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[r9etb]

Brachiosaurus leg bone in space!

[KoRn]

"Too bad our APOD guy left FR"

I was wondering what happened to Sig. He left? Any reason why? I used to look forward to his ping every day.

[redhead]

"I can make a hat, or a broache, or a teredactyl."

It's a whu-u-u-ut??"

"A pteradactyl! Ca-caw! Ca-caw! Ca-caw!"

[SunkenCiv]

Here’s the scoop:

http://www.freerepublic.com/~sig226/

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“You people really need to read Saul Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals. NRA is not your enemy, and The New York Times is not your friend.

“Good luck and God bless.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:sig226/index?tab=comments;brevity=full;options=no-change

Maybe you could drop him/her an email and pick up the ping list duties. It’s a LOT easier to inherit one than to build one from scratch. :’)

[SunkenCiv]

Another great thing about the APOD list is that it has its own TOPIC as well as keyword, a real plum courtesy FR.

[KoRn]

"Maybe you could drop him/her an email and pick up the ping list duties. It’s a LOT easier to inherit one than to build one from scratch."

I don't have an email for Sig. I'd be happy to keep up the list if I had it. That list was one of my favs. (I wonder if they still check their FR mail)