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Composition of a Comet Poses a Puzzle for Scientists
NY Times ^
| September 7, 2005
| KENNETH CHANG
Posted on 09/07/2005 12:10:01 PM PDT by neverdem
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Arrows on a composite image of the comet Tempel 1 point to two areas where the surface is smooth instead of spotted with depressions.
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posted on
09/07/2005 12:10:02 PM PDT
by
neverdem
To: neverdem
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posted on
09/07/2005 12:11:24 PM PDT
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Mamzelle
To: PatrickHenry
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posted on
09/07/2005 12:11:44 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
To: neverdem
Clays and carbonates both require liquid water to form. Sez them..........
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posted on
09/07/2005 12:13:27 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(United States Marine Corps.....An army of WON!...........)
To: neverdem
bump for later.
Could be that they are interpreting their IR signals with a terracentric view.
It also seems a bit rash to me to be generalizing data for all Oort and Kuiper objects using data from just one.
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posted on
09/07/2005 12:13:52 PM PDT
by
DBrow
To: DBrow
"Could be that they are interpreting their IR signals with a terracentric view."
How horribly unprogressive. Down with terracentrism!
To: neverdem
It looks like an interesting article, but no way am I going to the New York Times to read the rest.
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posted on
09/07/2005 12:18:01 PM PDT
by
EternalHope
(Boycott everything French forever. Including their vassal nations.)
To: neverdem
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posted on
09/07/2005 12:18:14 PM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(Discoveries attributable to the scientific method -- 100%; to creation science -- zero.)
To: neverdem
Metaresearch.org has some explanations for this. Interesting none the less
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posted on
09/07/2005 12:18:38 PM PDT
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Shark24
To: neverdem
"How do clays and carbonates form in frozen comets where there isn't liquid water?"
Remnants from a previous solar system I venture to guess.
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posted on
09/07/2005 12:19:47 PM PDT
by
PfromHoGro
(The W knows.)
To: Red Badger
essentially an 820-pound, washing machine-size bullet...Why didn't they use a hot water heater sized bullet?..or better yet a refrigerator sized bullet? The budget must have been slashed because I believe initial planning was for a piano sized bullet.
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posted on
09/07/2005 12:21:49 PM PDT
by
carumba
To: neverdem
It's taken a while for the analysis to start getting some results, as expected. The comet seems to be like a cottonball cone you would buy and possibly eat at the fair. There isn't much substance to it. But what there is would be very useful on the moon if they can get it there.
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posted on
09/07/2005 12:22:10 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(We in heep dip trubble)
To: P from Sheb
or remnants from the early bodies in this solar system.
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posted on
09/07/2005 12:23:56 PM PDT
by
King Prout
(and the Clinton Legacy continues: like Herpes, it is a gift that keeps on giving.)
Hmmm... evidence of Tiamat? What do Enki, Enlil, and the rest of the Nibiruians have to say about this? ;-)
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09/07/2005 12:24:50 PM PDT
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adaven
(www.conservative-talk.com)
To: carumba
The budget was tight, so they had to BITE THE BULLET.........
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09/07/2005 12:29:11 PM PDT
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Red Badger
(United States Marine Corps.....An army of WON!...........)
To: neverdem
"How do you do that and then how do you put that stuff into a comet that forms out by Pluto?" Dr. Lisse said. the obvious answer is that it formed somewhere warmer.
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posted on
09/07/2005 12:31:09 PM PDT
by
CzarNicky
(The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
To: King Prout
From the moon's birth perhaps.
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posted on
09/07/2005 12:32:00 PM PDT
by
PfromHoGro
(The W knows.)
To: thchronic
No, it's just another piece of evidence for the exploded planet theory.
To: P from Sheb
or the collision which formed the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, or any number of other impacts.
al data indicates that the early solar system was a rather hoppin' jernt.
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posted on
09/07/2005 12:34:17 PM PDT
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King Prout
(and the Clinton Legacy continues: like Herpes, it is a gift that keeps on giving.)
To: El Gato; JudyB1938; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Robert A. Cook, PE; lepton; LadyDoc; jb6; tiamat; PGalt; ..
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09/07/2005 12:34:50 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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