I could just sit back and enjoy the spectacle...

Do you remember the names of the Japanese monsters?

I remember only Godzilla, Gamera and Gappa.

What are the others?

Saul Levy wrote:
Mike A'Hearn is an astronomer who's done much research in these
topics, RL! If anyone'd know, he would.

Not everyone has the total lack of astronomical knowledge of a
WartHole, or BEERTbrain's very poor education in astronomy.

Saul Levy


On 10 Jun 2006 07:41:44 -0700, "Raving Loonie"
wrote:

Double-A wrote:
G=EMC^2 Glazier wrote:
As I'm typing I'm looking at pictures I have of both,and they both look
like Mars moons. Mars moons are asteroids. Tempel 1 does not look like
a dirty snow ball. Its potato shaped,has dusty creators,and made of
rock. Structure wise it is hard for me to look at Tempel 1 and say its a
comet. Its nice to have close up pictures of both Deep impact probe of
Tempel 1,and Gaspra photographed by the Galileo spacecraft as it went by
in 1991. This has bothered me a lot. Can I say a rock asteroid and a
rock comet are physically the same? Bert


Analysis: Deep Impact Comet All Fluff
By Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
posted: 06 September 2005
01:05 pm ET


A thorough analysis confirms that and other preliminary conclusions
about the 7-mile-long icy world, which appears to be rather fluffy.

Weak and porous

The outer tens of meters (yards) of the comet is less strong than a
snow bank, said Deep Impact's Principal Investigator Michael A'Hearn,
an astronomer at the University of Maryland.

Still, the object's gravity holds it all together.
So?

A " Dust Bunny " is less strong than a snow bank, too ...

A'Hearn explained that when a comet plummets through the atmosphere, it
creates a shock wave in front. Such a shock wave, not a comet's
composition, is the primary factor that allows a large comet to make it
to the surface intact, delivering water and organics.
Cough, cough ...

I wonder how A'Hearn knows this?

Cordially,

RL