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Coffee House => Coffee House Boards => CH / Science and Technology => Topic started by: blobrana on July 01, 2005, 12:08:34 AM
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My name, along with another 625,000 people’s names will be part of the July 3-4 fireworks when Deep Impact impactor spacecraft collides with Comet Tempel 1.
When Deep Impact was in its final stages of development, organizers in NASA's Education and Public Outreach program created the Send Your Name to a Comet campaign.
The Internet-based effort allowed participants to sign their name up for destruction and print out an official certificate documenting their place on the list.
"We thought it would be fun for people to say their name was on the impactor that collided with the comet. We thought it would let them feel like they were part of the mission." - Maura Roundtree-Brown, organizer.
People could submit their names between May 2003 and January 2004.
Once registration closed, the list was burned onto a mini-CD and attached to the spacecraft -- tucked under the thermal blanketing...to keep it safe until it vaporises during this holiday weekend when the impactor and comet slam together at 37,000 Km/h.
"It will be vaporized along with the impactor"
Though, NASA will have to wait until Monday to see if they hit the mark with their impactor...
The nominal impact time is July 04 05:52:00 UTC, +/- 3 minutes, Earth received time.
The actual impact should occur about 07:15 minutes earlier due to the light time delay.
Current orbit solutions using astrometry determination from last night, says that impact will occur about 15 Seconds late. (The 1-sigma uncertainty is around 12 seconds)
The best Earth view will be over Hawaii…but a huge cloud may emerge that may brighten the comet for several hours…so that it’ll be visible through binoculars…
My official certificate (http://deepimpact1.jpl.nasa.gov/sendyourname/certificate.cfm?CertNum=3996&CertName=Blob%20Rana) :-)
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Fireworks on earth to celebrate! (http://www.njagyouth.org/liberty.htm):banana:
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hehe,
I got that java routine already lined up.....
Same fireworks code on my webpage (http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/blobrana/subs/index.html)
with sound!
:-)
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@blobrana
You're space dust now! Fantastic shot, a bullseye from 270 million miles!
I was intrigued to see old craters on the comet surface. I'd have thought the 'dirty snowball' scenario and copious outgassing would have rendered impact craters relatively short-lived.
It appeared to be more rocky-pummicey than dirty-icey, but we'll have to await the final results I guess. Anyway, you can say you were there!
JaX
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Hum,
yeah...
I put together some images of the final moments of the cdrom HERE (http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/blobrana/cont/tempel1.htm).
i hope they made a backup of that disk...
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This could be a hot theme for a sci-fi movie.
Like for example everyone that had their name recorded turns out to have some weird side-effects afterwards...like super powers, or such. :-) The possibilities are endless! :-)
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x56h34 wrote:
This could be a hot theme for a sci-fi movie.
Like for example everyone that had their name recorded turns out to have some weird side-effects afterwards...like super powers, or such. :-) The possibilities are endless! :-)
For goodness sake, NO.
:lol:
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Now they can hit such a small thingy in space, they surely will be able to shoot ICBMS out of the sky, won't they?
Or will weather still be too much a factor, still :-?
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Shooting an ICBM out of the sky requires tremendous computing power and highly accurate navigational systems: you only have a few minutes to compute a target solution and deploy your countermeasures. Now compare that to the relative ease of months of trajectory calculations which saw Deep Impact impact on Temple 1.
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Still, the extremely small size of the object, the extreme speed of the object+rocket, getting out of the atmosphere in the right degree etcetera etcetera
sounds like a hell of a job
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Hum,
yeah,
even though Tempel 1 is aout the sze of Manhattan, the odds were 50:50 that they hit the mark...
And it seems that they were lucky that they hit where they did (the comets shaped like an elongated potato) and not to make any major course changes with the impactor...
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/blobrana/news/121514main_PIA02127-500.jpg)
(10kb)
They hit right at the bottom part beside the distinctive crater rim.
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celebrating (http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-2/112270/July4.jpg) with a nice picture of the flag.
he hem! :-o
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:-)
:fireworks:
:smoke:
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x56h34 wrote:
This could be a hot theme for a sci-fi movie.
Like for example everyone that had their name recorded turns out to have some weird side-effects afterwards...like super powers, or such. :-) The possibilities are endless! :-)
Yeah, for example you could take a story that played upon our guilt as to how we treated our African colonies and our fears about imperial German aspirations and completely re-write it so that it's set in the modern day east coast of the USA and play on family values instead...
Thanks Mr Spielberg
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@Mr Spielberg
Hum,
Why not make the martians the heros in `War of the worlds`?
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Destroy All Humans!
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I guess I was the only one crying during WotW, when the alien invaders started dieing. :oops:
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cecilia wrote:
celebrating (http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-2/112270/July4.jpg) with a nice picture of the flag.
he hem! :-o
:-o Cecilia! :oops:
yum
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x56h34 wrote:
This could be a hot theme for a sci-fi movie.
Like for example everyone that had their name recorded turns out to have some weird side-effects afterwards...like super powers, or such. :-) The possibilities are endless! :-)
Well, how about this for the basis of a storyline..
NASA sued for $300m for altering someones horoscope (http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/07/04/deep.impact.sues.reut/index.html?section=cnn_space) (CNN)
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@Doobrey:
That is sooooo out of whack. :lol:
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Yup.. and I've just got a migrane thinking about it.
If fate is decided by heavenly bodies, then doesn't it follow that Deep Impacts success was already assured before the mission was even dreamed of?
Maybe the legal action should be changed to Deranged Nutjob vs Heavenly Bodies?
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"(the comets shaped like an elongated potato)"
Wait, you mean it isnt actually a potato (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/blobrana/news/121514main_PIA02127-500.jpg)? (and the moon isnt made of cheese?) :-D Oh, you mad scientists are going to drive us crazy...
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By toutatis!
The strange thing is that the comets consistency is similar to mashed tatties..."For Mash Get Smash (http://www.btinternet.com/~reg.joy/images/Robots/Smash2.jpg)" ...(but made up of water ice, co2, silica etc…)
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@Blobrana
Quick question on this one. Is this a simple act of rather pricy destruction? Or are they going to get some samples and take readings from it, you know, like the core samples taken for oil prospecting, etc? (And no you guys, I don't mean are they looking for oil on a comet!) :-)
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Hum,
Well simply, by looking at the size of the crater it left was an easy way to find out what it was made of…
But a lot more can be found out by looking at the spectral (light) from the dust.
So we now know its composition and make up…its very dusty, and not solid…which may help us out in the future….
The main reason for the mission, imho, is to avoid the fate that befell the dinosaurs…
So quite cheap compared with that.
Landing on a comet and taking samples from lots of location would be a better option, and there is one on its way to do exactly that.
Europe's Rosetta (http://www.geocities.com/goarana668/rosetta.htm) space mission will land a probe on to the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 9 years time…
Mark it in your diary…
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Doobrey wrote:
Well, how about this for the basis of a storyline..
NASA sued for $300m for altering someones horoscope (http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/07/04/deep.impact.sues.reut/index.html?section=cnn_space) (CNN)
That it just frikin pathetic. :-x
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Methuselas wrote:
Doobrey wrote:
Well, how about this for the basis of a storyline..
NASA sued for $300m for altering someones horoscope (http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/07/04/deep.impact.sues.reut/index.html?section=cnn_space) (CNN)
That it just frikin pathetic. :-x
C'mon! Are you American or what? :roflmao: