First Results From Deep Impact Mission

jdoire wrote to mention a Physicsweb piece revealing some of the first bits of data from the Deep Impact mission. From the article: "Based on data from the flyby spacecraft and the impactor, Michael O'Hearn of the University of Maryland and colleagues say that Tempel 1 belongs to the Jupiter family of comets, although its overall shape and surface features are quite different from the nuclei of the two other comets that have been studied in detail -- Wild 2 and Borelly. They also report that Tempel 1 consists largely of extremely fine particles that seem to be very loosely bound together: in other words, the comet is more like a pile of powder than a solid rock." Looks like the Electric Universe folks were a bit off.

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[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:The real reason for the mission

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Wow, mods!
Something that someone thought was funny, has now been modded down PAST its original score... then modded back up to the orginal score. Except for the first "funny" mod point used, all the points have been "underrated" or "overrated."

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I'm sure there are plenty of comments on articles on the front page that have not been modded at all, but deserve recognition for one reason or another.