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Drafell
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Mythica
Joined: May 30, 2003
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From: United Kingdom
|  Posted: 2005-07-04 12:04
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4647673.stm
We can hit a target 80 million miles away, but we always seem to hit our own troops in war. Go figure. 
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Joined: October 22, 2004
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From: Florida
| Posted: 2005-07-04 12:20
yea saw that on the news
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philll
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Posts: 268
| Posted: 2005-07-04 12:25
wow
now thats what i call a headshoot
thats gota be the best gf veteran ever at the controls
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Joined: March 23, 2003
Posts: 11183
From: Bristol, England
| Posted: 2005-07-04 17:27
I still wanna see what the hit effects were.
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Shippo
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Joined: July 04, 2004
Posts: 197
From: Texas, USA
| Posted: 2005-07-04 18:05
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/deepimpact/media/deepimpact-070405-2.html
You can also find stuff at NASA's site. Have any of you noticed that the spacecraft name is also a movie? I kinda figured why they'd call it Deep Impact as well for what they plan on doing. I do have to say, the movie isn't bad... but that's besides the point.
Seems as though NASA is still trying to figure out what the planets are made of when they were forming about 4.6 Billion years ago.. I don't know if comets hold the key to this but, it is a possibility...
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ForMichael
Joined: June 11, 2004
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| Posted: 2005-07-04 18:45
NASA is being sued $300 million because a woman claims that the impact slightly altered the orbit of the comet messing up her horoscopes.
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sentryjs
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| Posted: 2005-07-04 19:31
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On 2005-07-04 18:45, ForMichael wrote:
NASA is being sued $300 million because a woman claims that the impact slightly altered the orbit of the comet messing up her horoscopes.
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That is rediculous.
I saw the impact happen live on NASA tv. It was quite the experiance and something Im proud to have whitnessed.
From the info I gathered from various websites there are two types of comets, short-period and long-period, classified bassed on their origin. Short-period comets are suggested to have originated from the Kupier belt just outside the reign of pluto. Long-term comets are believed to come from the Oort Cloud, a collection of icy bodies about 1000 times farther away from the sun than Pluto's orbit.
The outter planets gravitational pull can nudge these bodies from the belt into our solar system and thus become active.
Scientists believe that these bodies have never met a heat source and are ingredients left over from the beginnings of our solar system. They are thought to contain organic dust and other things frozen in time. It is thought that comets are what brought water to Earth thus creating life.
Personally I find the whole thing very interesting and have done my fair share of research in comets ever since I first heard of this mission.
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Joined: June 28, 2005
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From: Luna, Sol.
| Posted: 2005-07-04 20:10
I foudn this quite intresting, what i was disapointed about was the fact that there was no video footage of it to watch on their website. i have always found the solor sytem interesting, it go's with all the space games i play, lol. Still... the guy who controlled the saterlite into orbit with the comet... wow. .... great piloting skills.
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sentryjs
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| Posted: 2005-07-04 20:21
I believe they drove it towards the *path* of the comet and then let tracking software fly it into the comet. I could be wrong...
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Shippo
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From: Texas, USA
| Posted: 2005-07-04 21:03
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On 2005-07-04 20:21, SentryIII wrote:
I believe they drove it towards the *path* of the comet and then let tracking software fly it into the comet. I could be wrong...
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Based on what I heard, NASA installed tracking software that will automatically adjust it's course (and I'm talking about the impactor) into the comets path. So, I don't think NASA actually controled the crafts but, they might have for part of it.
I find space and the solar system very interesting. I've been studying it for years and such. I learned quite a few things such as the different star systems and binary systems and all that. I also knew of the Kupier Belt which is indeed outside of Pluto's orbit. It is said that the next "planet" could be a member of this belt. (For those who don't know, it's Sedna.) Some scientists think that Pluto is a member of the belt but, I don't know... The Oort Cloud though.. could contain the secrets of space that will answer some of our questions as to what the universe is made. Thing is, we can't go out that far... yet anyway. We lost transmission of the voyager crafts and well, we don't know where they are.. if they have been destroyed..
Shame I didn't see the impact.. -.- I wanted to see it too......... Wonder if I can find a video footage of it somewhere.. *tramps off to find it*
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From: Luna, Sol.
| Posted: 2005-07-05 02:30
wait sooo... so if the keplers belts the one behind pluto, the Oort cloud even further away... whats the strectch of asteroids between us and mars?
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Doran
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From: The Gideon Unit
| Posted: 2005-07-05 09:40
just a regular asteroid belt.. probably has a name but ive never heard one
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Yitram
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| Posted: 2005-07-05 11:02
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On 2005-07-04 18:45, ForMichael wrote:
NASA is being sued $300 million because a woman claims that the impact slightly altered the orbit of the comet messing up her horoscopes.
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Sending the impactor into the comet has about the same effect on the comet's orbit as a bug has when it hits the windshield a fully loaded semi travelling at 70 mph.
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UnknownWarrior
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Joined: July 18, 2002
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From: North Carolina, USA
| Posted: 2005-07-05 11:40
Someone needs to slap that woman against the back of her head and tell her to get a life...Shes just being flat out stupid...
As for the impactor and the comet, very nice, maybe the info we get out of all this could help future research.
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From: Bristol, England
| Posted: 2005-07-05 15:26
The comets path was not altered, so the woman is telling a pack of lies.
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