Stardust-NExT, Revisiting Tempel 1 |
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 Feb 15 2011, 03:57 AM
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While we are waiting for our Glorious Leader to take the stage, may I take this opportunity to remark how unbearably boring NASA TV is 99% of the time - especially immediately preceding live events.
EDIT - it's on now 8:20 pm PST -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Feb 15 2011, 04:32 AM
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Watching.
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Feb 15 2011, 04:33 AM
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Broadcast started now on NASAtv.
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Feb 15 2011, 04:35 AM
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Its not PBS or the BBC, but it also receives a really small budget in comparison, and still is able to put on informative shows, albeit with a certain cheese factor.
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Feb 15 2011, 04:38 AM
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Dust Flux instrument is on!
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Feb 15 2011, 04:43 AM
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EotSS demo coming up soon!
-------------------- ...Tom
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Feb 15 2011, 04:45 AM
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There's Doug!
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Feb 15 2011, 04:48 AM
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Well done, Doug!
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Feb 15 2011, 04:59 AM
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Closest approach done! (my heart jumped when that guy said 'impact').
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Feb 15 2011, 05:01 AM
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This is really a fantastic tool. Curious, is the positioning of the comet accurate? The last I was aware, the comet movement wasn't known well enough to predict it at that time.
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Feb 15 2011, 05:05 AM
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The orbit of the comet is actually very well understood. The big unknown is its rotation, though they have a pretty good idea based on light curves.
-------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Feb 15 2011, 05:10 AM
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More dust after CA than before; interesting.
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Feb 15 2011, 05:15 AM
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Not at all surprising, imho. Outbound, the spacecraft is heading into the "tail" IIRC.
Edit: 181 km was closest approach. -------------------- -- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)
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Feb 15 2011, 05:29 AM
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Feb 15 2011, 05:44 AM
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QUOTE (ZLD @ Feb 14 2011, 10:01 PM)  This is really a fantastic tool. Curious, is the positioning of the comet accurate? The last I was aware, the comet movement wasn't known well enough to predict it at that time. Well, clearly they are trying to center the comet in the frame so they will point to where they think the comet will be to the best of their knowledge of the predicted trajectory of both the comet and the spacecraft. Though obviously, when the real images, that doesn't mean the comet will actually be in the center of the image. -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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