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[Guest_paulanderson_*]

This is the first source I've come across for this, an interview with Carey Michael Lisse, member of the Deep Impact Science Team and Principal Investigator for the Chandra X-Ray and Spitzer telescope Deep Impact spectrometer results:

http://www.earthfiles.com/news/news.cfm?ID...ategory=Science

Interesting results, including 50% + water ice, limestone-like carbonates and amino acid precursors, just presented at the 9th International Asteroids, Comets and Meteors Conference in Brazil.

[The Messenger]

Deep Impact is touching a lot of raw nerves, and no matter what model emerges, it will have to be sprinkled with dust. Data, please data.

HASI recorded an increase in the permittivity of the Titan surface at 12 minutes after impact.

What It would take some serious outgassing / chemical compositional change / fluid movement to modify the permittivity. Perhaps there really is a mooning Titanian, and he is a sand worm

They don't know what it means, and are working first to rule out anything that might be coming from within Huygens to cause that observation...But to do that, they need data from all the other science teams, and individual teams are often reluctant or at least slow to share the necessary data.

http://planetary.org/blog/20050905.html

This is disheartening. I can understand why some data is being withheld from the public (but I don't like it). For the teams trying to analyse and reduce such puzzling data to not share every piece of the puzzle with each other is retarded.

Stardust is scheduled to land in the Utah Desert in January of 2006. I propose we get together and fund a helicopter to intercept and pirate the probe to a secret laboratory that allows complete internet access to all the data as it emerges. Otherwise, the PIs will spirit it off like Genesis, and disappear forever.

[djellison]

For the teams trying to analyse and reduce such puzzling data to not share every piece of the puzzle with each other is retarded. 

I totally agree. It almost seems that one instrument is happier to share data with an instrument on a foreign spacecraft, before sharing it with it's neigbours onboard it's own spacecraft.

Doug