Deep Impact Realtime Thread |
Deep Impact Realtime Thread |
Jul 4 2005, 05:45 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
FInal burn manouver complete - accurate to within 0.23%
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Jul 4 2005, 05:45 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 356 Joined: 12-March 05 Member No.: 190 |
Final TCM burn error less than 1/4 of a %!! wow
time to impact is <5min....... |
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Jul 4 2005, 05:51 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
10 seconds to go
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Jul 4 2005, 05:52 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Loss of Signal
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Jul 4 2005, 05:52 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
WOoooooooooooooooooooooooooo - the pictures
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Jul 4 2005, 05:53 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Wow - this is like ranger - amazing images coming in one after the other
Doug |
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Jul 4 2005, 05:53 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 356 Joined: 12-March 05 Member No.: 190 |
WOW! lovely!! they look far closer than what was returned from stardust!! looks like the same weird flat bottom cratering!
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Jul 4 2005, 05:55 AM
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Director of Galilean Photography Group: Members Posts: 896 Joined: 15-July 04 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 93 |
Is that a crack?? My bet is for rubble pile!!
-------------------- Space Enthusiast Richard Hendricks
-- "The engineers, as usual, made a tremendous fuss. Again as usual, they did the job in half the time they had dismissed as being absolutely impossible." --Rescue Party, Arthur C Clarke Mother Nature is the final inspector of all quality. |
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Jul 4 2005, 05:57 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Is it wrong that I was celebrating WAYYY before the scientists
Oh WOW - image showing the impact Doug |
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Jul 4 2005, 05:59 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 356 Joined: 12-March 05 Member No.: 190 |
It's perfect! Perfectly centered in the image frame is a conical ejecta image!! beautiful!!!
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Jul 4 2005, 06:03 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1887 Joined: 20-November 04 From: Iowa Member No.: 110 |
"doing very well for a spaceraft about to be vaporized"
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Jul 4 2005, 06:03 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
Doh - party's over here now....
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"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Jul 4 2005, 06:04 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
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Jul 4 2005, 06:05 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
-------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Jul 4 2005, 06:07 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
Good images of the nucleus - looks like a bent Enceladus!
-------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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