Wanna see a spacecraft crash into a comet?

[Archdean]

This is just a hobby of mine and I have posted several other astronomical events in the past, A few like them so look if your interested!

Update: Send Your Name to a Comet
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Back on November 18th, 2003, I mentioned that NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory was

offering you the opportunity to add your name to a CD-ROM
destined for spaceflight... [T]he CD-ROM will be onboard a
spacecraft that will crash into Comet Temple 1 on July 4th, 2005.
And, no, that "crash" line isn't a jab at NASA. The goal of JPL's
Deep Impact project is to crash a 370 kg (820 pound) mass --
including the CD-ROM -- into the Comet Temple 1 in order to

1. Make a really, really big hole.
2. Observe how that hole forms
3. Measure the hole's depth and diameter
4. Measure the composition of the interior of the crater and
the stuff that gets blown out into space.
5. Determine how the hole changes the comet's tail.

About 625,000 people signed up for the opportunity to have their name
blown into space smithereens. And with July 4th, 2005, just a few
days away, it's impact time, baby!

For those of you who are night owls, the impact is scheduled for 5:52
AM GMT [1:52 AM EDT] on Monday, July 4th. NASA plans to offer a
webcast of the impact in both RealPlayer and Windows Media Player
formats at

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html)

and Space.com will be offering their own webcast at

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/050701_deep_impact_web.html (http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/050701_deep_impact_web.html)

To learn more about the mission, including instructions on how to view
the comet in the nighttime sky, check out JPL's Deep Impact page at

http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html (http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html)

As I said back in 2003, the greatest part about this whole project is
that my name [and yours too, if you signed up] will forever be
associated with "a spectacular, football field-sized crater, seven to
15 stories deep." That's just too cool for words.

Note I am not the original author of the above.. I am just an interested member!!

[chipmaker]

Cool, but I sure don;t want to add my name to yet another crash....I had my fair share of them growing up as a teenager .....probably be a little late now anyhow.......unless of course they, (and they probably do) have a computer on board with a CD/RW burner in it, so it can be updated.


Heck I as reading the one page and after spending all that money to get a sv to crash into that comet, its only porjected to make a hole about as large as a typical SUV.......and and explosion equal to about 5 tons of TNT.......I make holes that big with 2 sticks of 60% :trink40: but still its a lot of impact force,,,,,yet won't move that comet out of its path and only causes it to slow down a staggering .o14" of forward velocity per hour........

And you always hear of the NASA folks hollering about space junk and debri etc floating around up there that is creating a hazzard to space flight, and here they go and make more........Oh well, what would one expect from a government run agency. Maybe next go around they will send up a space sweeper and milk a couple of more billion dollars out of us to clean up all the mess.

[Archdean]

Like I said:Note I am not the original author of the above.. I am just an interested member!!

Of course we could debate over the weekend the virtues of Champion Spark plugs vs brand XYZ in our BS engines!!! That will sure get my heart rate up!!:banghead3

[draddogs]

Like I said:Note I am not the original author of the above.. I am just an interested member!!

Of course we could debate over the weekend the virtues of Champion Spark plugs vs brand XYZ in our BS engines!!! That will sure get my heart rate up!!:banghead3

Champion vs XYZ= excitement?????? Okay now I am getting to understand this Okies way of thinkingROF

[dirtybernie]

Like I said:Note I am not the original author of the above.. I am just an interested member!!

Of course we could debate over the weekend the virtues of Champion Spark plugs vs brand XYZ in our BS engines!!! That will sure get my heart rate up!!:banghead3
so dean what are your thoughts of champions in briggs engines! ROF ROF

[Archdean]

so dean what are your thoughts of champions in briggs engines! ROF ROF

You jest!!