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Deep Impact Probe to Look for Earth-sized Planets
Invisible Pink Unicorn writes "NASA has given University of Maryland scientists the green light to fly the Deep Impact probe to Comet Hartley 2. The spacecraft will pass Earth on New Year's Eve at the beginning of a more than two-and-a-half-year journey to Hartley 2. During the first six months of the journey to Hartley 2, they will use the larger of the two telescopes on Deep Impact to search for Earth-sized planets around five stars selected as likely candidates for such planets. Upon arriving at the comet, Deep Impact will conduct an extended flyby of Hartley 2 using all three of the spacecraft's instruments — two telescopes with digital color cameras and an infrared spectrometer."
I remember doing this for work. We needed to create a select element with a few thousand items that needed to be added dynamically based on an array of data. The fastest way that worked across all browsers was to concatenate a strings of tags using Array.push and join() followed by adding the string to the select element with innerHTML. This was about 10 times faster in IE as opposed to adding option items using DOM methods.
What are you talking about willis?
Deep impact probe into ur anus?
Ok sorry, you left yourself wide opened for that one!
-Alex. http://bit.ly/1iVPtfA
This is very exciting and many astronomers are confident of quick results from previous studies of system B1173 in Galaxy Priordan[bbc.co.uk]
Haha! Deep impact probe into uranus leaves Mark of the Brown Ring.[News]
They have pictures with element analysis of some of these planets
Astrophysicist Paul Davies addresses this very well in his blog. It's not always as cut and dried as a layman might think[pauldavies.com]