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Comets Form Like Deep Fried Ice Cream Scoops
astroengine writes Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, Calif., have added another oddity to the cometary 'weird list': comets are best described as scoops of deep fried ice cream. "The crust is made of crystalline ice, while the interior is colder and more porous," said Murthy Gudipati of JPL, co-author of a recent study appearing in The Journal of Physical Chemistry. "The organics are like a final layer of chocolate on top."
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Don't put out statements right before lunch.
The JPL astronomers in the Niven / Pournelle book Lucifer's Hammer use hot fudge sundae as the model for the comet in the book, when they are trying to compute the damage it will do if it hits the earth. See page 85 or so, depending on your edition of the book. https://books.google.com/books?id=mWL5SdJobpcC&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85&dq=lucifer%27s+hammer+hot+fudge+sundae&source=bl&ots=DWaZRJZoGM&sig=_1d6AE4rnz8dzJ4R-aB3RJEnb5A&hl=en&sa=X&ei=FbHbVLGoAYT0oATL0oGgCQ&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=lucifer's%20hammer%20hot%20fudge%20sundae&f=false
Nice to see that real life has confirmed 30 year old fiction :-)
That's what happens when you melt and refreeze the surface of a foamed polyphasic material. How is this odd?
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NASA in TFA relates in details that the work they did mainly comes from the European Space Agency results from the Rosetta mission.
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which falls on a Tuesdae this month, as I recall....
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They're rolled in cinamon and sugar and deep fried?
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Next: the Moon is made of green cheese.
Most "good" science fiction has things that are true, but just not known yet. Jules Verne has a list of predicted inventions too long for me to list here (I'm sure someone would be offended I left off their favorite). Like good science, if it isn't predictive, it isn't useful. Much of Heinlein and Hubbard is provably impossible now, but was used as plot devices. Star Trek is splitting the difference, a little predictive, a little impossible. Niven liked aliens a little too much to be testable, though Ringworld is proven impossible, without materials we can't even conceive of yet.
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These planetary boffins have to make increasingly ridiculous comparisons just to stand out.
I thought Rosetta found that 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko is not out gassing evenly. So if things are primary happening in the neck of the rubber ducky, does this reform the shell after melting and rehardening again?
Deep fried ice cream scoops......
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I mean, come on, this is like, sooooo boring that these comets form, like, you know venti deep fried ice cream latte scoops. I mean, I can't even ....
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The JPL astronomers in the Niven / Pournelle book Lucifer's Hammer use hot fudge sundae as the model for the comet in the book, when they are trying to compute the damage it will do if it hits the earth...
So, when we get up close to one someone is just going to have to say
"Man, look at the nuts on that thing!"
Rest assured, this is the *best* description scientists are able to deliver of how comets are formed. I mean, now you know just as much as they do.
That's how I read it. Then I said. "Scoops what?"
Another example why it is a bad idea to compose press releases on an empty stomach
First after read-only mode!