Deep Impact Realtime Thread |
Deep Impact Realtime Thread |
Jul 4 2005, 04:52 AM
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Well - impactor TCM 1 went well - <0.3% error and it's on course for a nominal impact time. PI has suggested that the comet is Banana shaped and we're going to hit the end of it which looks a little triangular
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Jul 4 2005, 03:30 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 877 Joined: 7-March 05 From: Switzerland Member No.: 186 |
There is an QT movie that shows most approach so far: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/deepimpa...a/pia02125.html
But it's diificult to compare the surface of comet when final approach comes close. I treid to make a frame set that shows marks from frame to frame. In fact there are two main sequences that fit and two frames which do not. The order is the same as in the movie. http://www.greuti.ch/deepimpact/Tempel1_ap...ch_impactor.jpg -------------------- |
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Jul 4 2005, 03:52 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3242 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
QUOTE (Tman @ Jul 4 2005, 08:30 AM) There is an QT movie that shows most approach so far: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/deepimpa...a/pia02125.html But it's diificult to compare the surface of comet when final approach comes close. I treid to make a frame set that shows marks from frame to frame. In fact there are two main sequences that fit and two frames which do not. The order is the same as in the movie. http://www.greuti.ch/deepimpact/Tempel1_ap...ch_impactor.jpg WOW, thanks for that sheet correlating features. I'm still trying to rap my head around this topography. They are definitely not craters. Given the scarps nature (with circular extentions), the seem most consistent with sapping, which makes perfect sense for a comet if these are the sites were jets form. -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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