On 11/4/2010 2:41 PM, Rick Jones wrote:
wrote:
For more information about EPOXI visit http://www.nasa.gov/epoxi and
http://epoxi.umd.edu/.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/epoxi/index.html

The images there make it look like a giant drumstick. Does that mean
that the spacecraft's next task is to find the rest of the giant space
chicken, or will they be looking for the KFC?-)

It's been described as looking like a peanut, but it reminded me of a
dumbbell.
Whatever the shape, it looks either like two objects that joined into
one, or one basically cylindrical one whose rotation caused loose
material to migrate to the ends via centrifugal force as outgassing made
it spin.

Pat