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First Images From the AnneFrank Flyby

Posted by chrisd on from the duck dept.

Cujo writes "The first images from the Stardust spacecraft's flyby of the asteroid AnneFrank can be see here among other places. It's been a while since we've had an asteroid flyby, although Deep Space 1 flew by Comet Borrelly about 13 months ago."

14 comments

  1. They messed up their experiment. by Trusty+Penfold · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The article says they used their dust collectors.

    Now, when it gets back to Earth, how will they know which particles came from AnneFrank and which came from Wild 2?

    1. Re:They messed up their experiment. by Trusty+Penfold · · Score: 2, Interesting

      It also says

      It turned out that we were approaching the asteroid's night side, and since all asteroids are different shapes, you can't definitively say which side will be light and which side will be dark.

      Erm, the side pointing towards the sun will be light, the other side will be dark.

      They do know where their probe is in relation to the Sun, don't they??

    2. Re:They messed up their experiment. by avalys · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Perhaps they can switch between different storage areas.

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  2. Obligatory Anne Frank joke by L.+VeGas · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm a little surprised that it got any pictures. I hear that the asteroid is very good at hiding.

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  3. MOD PARENT DOWN by jakobk · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    This is not funny at all.

    1. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Lighten up dude.

    2. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yes, you're right. It's obvious, unfunny and in poor taste. Still, it could have been worse. I think probably best to just ignore it as it can't be deleted.

    3. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I agree with #4601710 whoever they are :-)

  4. from the duck dept. by Dannon · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I always thought that the /. editors were a little quackers. Don't get me wrong, though, I've never accused them of fowl play.

    *ducks and runs!*

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  5. MOD PARENT UP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Very funny!

  6. thanks by zogger · · Score: 1

    --thanks woulda missed this story. neat pic. Sorta going hmmm over their allusion to it's size "same size as the one killed off the dinosaurs". In astrotech speek I guess this means "a whopper". The mother of all kabooms if one hit. Wonder what the energy level would be mesured as? what size earthquakes would it make, or tsunamis or whatever? The math is beyond me I'll admit, some place between gee whizz and aww %^&*t.

  7. poor taste by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    am I the only one who thinks naming an asteroid after AnneFrank to be in poor taste?

  8. whopps by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    as soon as I saw this article I immediately thought it meant clips from the film of her taken in the 1930s of her waving from a window during a parade. But instead, some 'insensitive clod' (?) has named an asteroid after her. Ohwell. It isn't going to bring them back.

  9. News update.... by McFly69 · · Score: 2

    This just in.... the picture take is picture of a dust particle on the camera lense and not of a dust partical in space.

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