Instrument commissioning phase, Beginning final approach to the comet |
Instrument commissioning phase, Beginning final approach to the comet |
Mar 26 2014, 06:23 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 93 Joined: 21-January 13 Member No.: 6845 |
Today a member of the camera science team put up the first images of the comet on his office door. So the camera works. He said on the image is M107 and the comet could this be?
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Jul 16 2014, 11:18 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2346 Joined: 7-December 12 Member No.: 6780 |
Large numbers make the unlikely happen.
Throw one dart; how likely is it to hit Bull's Eye from 5 meters distance? Now repeat the same experiment 10,000 times. From the large number of Oort objects and the chaotic nature of n-body systems like our solar system, a large number of scenarios are possible. I'm sure we'll learn things we didn't anticipate, each of the next weeks. The two parts look different in their shape: While the larger component is going to get a lenticular appearance with possibly a deep valley or a small third component, the smaller one seems to be more similar to a cube, possibly heavily cratered. The roughly lenticular shape of the larger component might be the result of rotation during formation, whereas the smaller one may have rotated less, but may have experienced more collisions. This is totally preliminary today, and we'll know much more within days. |
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