Comet Wild 2 as seen by the Stardust spacecraft today: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2004/1.cfm Patrick
I just had a great view of the Green Flash. It must have lasted between 3 and 5 seconds. The Sun turned from yellow to greenish-white and ended with a beautiful emerald green for the last second or two. What a treat! I was just closing the hangar door at Skypark and saw the Sun setting behind the Stansbury range. As is usually the case, the air is moist, I was looking over a body of water (the Great Salt Lake), and with a horizon that was a long distance away. The Stansbury rang was at least 35-40 miles away. Brent __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Find out what made the Top Yahoo! Searches of 2003 http://search.yahoo.com/top2003
Look at how rough it appears, even at over 300 miles distance! It actually looks to me like a big, dirty snowball that's partially melted. To stand on the surface might be like standing on a giant sponge. Are those craters, or eroded areas (pits)? Wow. C. --- Patrick Wiggins <paw@trilobyte.net> wrote:
Comet Wild 2 as seen by the Stardust spacecraft today:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2004/1.cfm
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Considering the felines that control of my place (remember that while dogs have owners, cats have attendants), I'm starting to think it looks like a large hair ball... The comet's seeming spherical size and its "craters" were topics discussed in the press conference that followed the release of the images. Things that small should not be spherical or have craters. No one seemed to have an answer for the shape except to speculate that the part in shadow is not round. No one wanted to call the holes craters. Instead they called them eroded areas or pits. Patrick Chuck Hards wrote:
Look at how rough it appears, even at over 300 miles distance! It actually looks to me like a big, dirty snowball that's partially melted. To stand on the surface might be like standing on a giant sponge. Are those craters, or eroded areas (pits)?i
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