Author Topic: Smash a comet..... Will NASA fold? (Read 4860 times)

Jerrymac · « **on:** June 10, 2005, 04:41:05 pm »

Hope they don't knock it into the earth.

On July 4, the Deep Impact mission will smash a probe into Tempel 1, a potato-shaped comet discovered in 1867 and believed to be representative of most comets. The impact will carve out a stadium-sized crater and provide valuable information about a comet's interior.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/06/07/deep.impact/index.html

Jerrymac · « **Reply #1 on:** July 02, 2005, 10:14:54 am »

Get your telescopes out,

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?flok=FF-APO-1501&idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20050701%2F2031429176.htm&sc=1501

Jerrymac · « **Reply #2 on:** July 04, 2005, 12:09:46 pm »

Got'er'done;

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?idq=/ff/story/0002%2F20050704%2F0249617063.htm&photoid=20050630LAB02D&ewp=ewp_news_nasa

leominsterbeeman · « **Reply #3 on:** July 04, 2005, 09:30:21 pm »

So this effort looks to be a success. So far.

One thing that disturbs me is that tthey are doingto to see if that can discover ifthere is some life that started here on from a comet. But maybe by this sct they are killing that potential life.

Jerrymac · « **Reply #4 on:** July 05, 2005, 09:33:48 pm »

NASA GONNA BE SUED!!!!

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news/story.jsp?idq=/ff/story/0002%2F20050705%2F0942725643.htm&sc=reodd