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Anyone interested in astronomy???
by zagor 14 Replies latest watchtower bible
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sonnyboy
Yes. I loved Star Wars and Contact.
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zagor
First Look at Tempel's Chemicals 07.01.05
A picture of Tempel 1(left) taken by Deep Impact's medium-resolution camera is shown next to data of the comet taken by the spacecraft's infrared spectrometer. This instrument breaks apart light like a prism to reveal the "fingerprints," or signatures, of chemicals. Even though the spacecraft was over 10 days away from the comet when these data were acquired, it detected some of the molecules making up the comet's gas and dust envelope, or coma. The signatures of these molecules - including water, hydrocarbons, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide - can be seen in the graph, or spectrum.
Deep Impact's impactor spacecraft is scheduled to collide with Tempel 1 at10:52 p.m. Pacific time on July 3 (1:52 a.m. Eastern time, July 4). The mission's flyby spacecraft will use its infrared spectrometer to sample the ejected material, providing the first look at the chemical composition of a comet's nucleus.
These data were acquired from June 20 to 21, 2005. The picture of Tempel 1 was taken by the flyby spacecraft's medium-resolution instrument camera. The infrared spectrometer uses the same telescope as the high-resolution instrument camera.
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tetrapod.sapien
I am fascinated by the sheer immensity and order of the universe with its countless billions of galaxies and trillions of stars and the photos of galaxies at the "edge" of the universe thanks to Hubble, the sheer power of it all.
yes, what greendawn said. i really have meant to learn more, and i hope to. on a similar topic, Discover magazine has a great feature article this month on planet building.
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DannyBloem
yes, very much interested in astronomy. Always wanted to be an astronomer since i was 3. But well it did not work out that way...
