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Strange comet unlike anything known
MSNBC ^ | June 17, 2004

Posted on 06/18/2004 6:41:11 AM PDT by traumer

A detailed analysis of the comet Wild 2 (pronounced "Vilt 2") has left astronomers astounded at an object that has no known peers in the solar system.

The comet, examined in a close flyby in January by NASA's Stardust spacecraft, has towering protrusions and steep-walled craters that seem to defy gravity. More than a dozen jets of material shoot out from its insides. Dust swirls around the comet in unexpectedly dense pockets.

Among the bizarre features are two depressions with flat floors and nearly vertical walls that resemble giant footprints. They aren't structured like typical impact craters. The features have been named Left Foot and Right Foot in a new map of the comet, which is roughly 3 miles (5 kilometers) wide.

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KEYWORDS: catastrophism; comet; space
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To: Rodney King
Maybe this is the comet that is coming to pick up those guys who all killed themsleves the last time a comet came around.

Don't you hate it when you've killed yourself and it's the wrong comet.

21 posted on 06/18/2004 8:21:31 AM PDT by TC Rider (The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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To: traumer

It's a giant quark.


22 posted on 06/18/2004 8:23:16 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: TC Rider
Maybe this is the comet that is coming to pick up those guys who all killed themsleves the last time a comet came around.

Don't you hate it when you've killed yourself and it's the wrong comet.

Q: Why didn't the spaceship come to earth to pick up the Heaven's Gate cult members?

A: They didn't have the balls.

23 posted on 06/18/2004 9:01:27 AM PDT by Bosco (Remember how you felt on September 11?)
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To: BibChr
That is one of my favorite "read again and again" books. No better "alien invasion" book, in my opinion (and I couldn't help but think of it during Independence Day!) A close second for Best Book (SF) though may be "Mote in God's Eye".
24 posted on 06/18/2004 9:15:43 AM PDT by 50sDad ( ST3d - Star Trek Tri-D Chess! http://my.oh.voyager.net/~abartmes)
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To: 50sDad

That's right; I thought the best part was the dawning perceptions of the coming invasion, and ID was reminiscent (ripoff? homage?) of that. Ditto Rama.

Dan


25 posted on 06/18/2004 9:21:54 AM PDT by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: ruiner

Well said.


26 posted on 10/24/2004 2:35:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("All I have seen teaches me trust the Creator for all I have not seen." -- Emerson)
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To: traumer

BTTT


27 posted on 10/24/2004 2:38:11 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: traumer

looks like the Death Star


28 posted on 10/24/2004 2:45:01 PM PDT by SeaBiscuit (God Bless President GWB and our Brave Troops)
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To: traumer

29 posted on 10/24/2004 2:47:28 PM PDT by Crawdad (I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no class.)
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To: traumer

30 posted on 10/24/2004 2:52:20 PM PDT by sweetliberty (Proud member of the Pajama Posse!)
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To: 75thOVI; AndrewC; Avoiding_Sulla; BenLurkin; Berosus; CGVet58; chilepepper; ckilmer; Eastbound; ...
Ping!
31 posted on 03/24/2006 10:30:46 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Yes indeed, Civ updated his profile and links pages again, on Monday, March 6, 2006.)
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32 posted on 01/22/2010 5:45:10 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Happy New Year! Freedom is Priceless.)
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33 posted on 01/22/2010 5:47:27 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Happy New Year! Freedom is Priceless.)
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