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Chips off a comet...
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 4:28 am
by Bill Sikes
Chips off a comet...
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 6:15 am
by Cass
A spacecraft is to be launched this week on a spectacular mission to blow a chunk the size of Rome's Coliseum out of a comet.
The Deep Impact probe's 80 million-mile journey will end in a 23,000mph collision creating a celestial firework display visible from Earth with binoculars on July 4, American Independence Day.
Its dramatic encounter with the Tempel 1 comet, creating an explosion equivalent to igniting 4.5 tons of TNT, will release a shower of debris that astronomers hope will provide clues to the origins of the solar system and possibly to life on Earth.
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You know what? I don't want to know that badly
Chips off a comet...
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 9:25 am
by BabyRider
Cassie, does this make you nervous? Don't you think it's amazing? I love stuff like this, (as long as the scientists know what they are doing, blowing this thing up.) Or is it that it's just not something that interests you?
Good article Bill, thanks.
Chips off a comet...
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 11:02 am
by Cass
BabyRider wrote: Cassie, does this make you nervous? Don't you think it's amazing? I love stuff like this, (as long as the scientists know what they are doing, blowing this thing up.) Or is it that it's just not something that interests you?
Good article Bill, thanks.
Messing around with comets is just not good IMO things can go wrong and if that deep penetration rocket malfunctions and heads for your neighbourhood, don't say I didn't warn ya
