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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: achtung on June 26, 2005, 03:35:19 pm

Title: NASA fireworks show
Post by: achtung on June 26, 2005, 03:35:19 pm

Deep Impact will probably be giving a fireworks show and it will all be on the 4th of July.

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If all goes as planned, the Deep Impact spacecraft will release a wine barrel-sized probe on a suicide journey, hurtling toward the comet Tempel 1 — about 80 million miles away from Earth at the time of impact.

Here (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050626/ap_on_sc/comet_buster)  is the news article.

Title: NASA fireworks show
Post by: DragonClaw on June 26, 2005, 03:43:19 pm

Correct link: Click (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050626/ap_on_sc/comet_buster)
Don't know how you managed to screw the link up so bad :lol:
Anyway, I'm not too sure I understand why they think revealing the core of a comet would reveal the origin of this solar system.

Title: NASA fireworks show
Post by: achtung on June 26, 2005, 03:48:42 pm

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Originally posted by DragonClaw
Correct link: Click (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050626/ap_on_sc/comet_buster)
Don't know how you managed to screw the link up so bad :lol:

Link fixed:D I just copied and pasted so I dunno.

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Originally posted by DragonClaw
Anyway, I'm not too sure I understand why they think revealing the core of a comet would reveal the origin of this solar system.

The materials in the comet should be very old.  On the order of Billions of years I guess.  Of course I could be totally wrong.

Title: NASA fireworks show
Post by: aldo_14 on June 26, 2005, 03:59:24 pm

AFAIK comets are believed to originate from the Oort cloud, which is itself formed of material (debris) left over from the formation of the solar system.