Comet from another star?

Sounds like a great beginning for a 1950's Sci-Fi movie plot:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28023860/
Seriously, if it is from another star system, this would be worth
getting a sample return mission to.
So we sent out a probe to do a flyby of it... and as the probe
approached, we first saw written on the surface of the comet those words
of terror that could spell the doom of mankind: "Space Battleship Yamato
is destroyed...all your anime are belong to us." :-D

Pat Flannery wrote:
Sounds like a great beginning for a 1950's Sci-Fi movie plot:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28023860/
Seriously, if it is from another star system, this would be worth
getting a sample return mission to.
So we sent out a probe to do a flyby of it... and as the probe
approached,....

Hmm. This has all the makings of a "Star Trek" episode. Oh, wait.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masks_(TNG_episode)

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Dave Michelson

Dave Michelson wrote:

Sounds like a great beginning for a 1950's Sci-Fi movie plot:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28023860/
Seriously, if it is from another star system, this would be worth
getting a sample return mission to.
So we sent out a probe to do a flyby of it... and as the probe
approached,....

Hmm. This has all the makings of a "Star Trek" episode. Oh, wait.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masks_(TNG_episode)

Oh, I remember that one now...they hardly ever re-run it...with good
reason. :-)

Pat

On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:53:47 -0800, Dave Michelson
wrote:

Hmm. This has all the makings of a "Star Trek" episode. Oh, wait.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masks_(TNG_episode)

....Or it could have a suicidal Q locked in it, or Balok could be
waiting there, surroounded by his insanity paintings, or a spaceship
full of vampires could be in orbit around it.

OM
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OM wrote:
On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:53:47 -0800, Dave Michelson
wrote:

Hmm. This has all the makings of a "Star Trek" episode. Oh, wait.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masks_(TNG_episode)

...Or it could have a suicidal Q locked in it, or Balok could be
waiting there, surrounded by his insanity paintings, or a spaceship
full of vampires could be in orbit around it.

So you *were* a member of Rick Berman's inner circle. I should have
guessed!

Hmmm. How many ST episodes featured a comet? The first season TOS
episode "Balance of Terror" did.

Wait. Someone has already researched this:

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Comet

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Dave Michelson

Dave Michelson wrote:

Hmmm. How many ST episodes featured a comet? The first season TOS
episode "Balance of Terror" did.

Wait. Someone has already researched this:

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Comet

Don't forget the one in the opening credits for DS9's sixth season.

Pat

On Dec 5, 4:35*am, OM wrote:

...Or it could have a suicidal Q locked in it

Yeah, or Terence Stamp :-)

On Dec 4, 1:12*pm, Pat Flannery wrote:
Sounds like a great beginning for a 1950's Sci-Fi movie plot:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28023860/
Seriously, if it is from another star system, this would be worth
getting a sample return mission to.
So we sent out a probe to do a flyby of it... and as the probe
approached, we first saw written on the surface of the comet those words
of terror that could spell the doom of mankind: "Space Battleship Yamato
is destroyed...all your anime are belong to us." :-D

On a more serious note, devoid of any anime nonsense, it seems to me
that the energy requirements to intercept an extrasolar comet on a
hyperbolic trajectory would be too great.
Too much fuel would be needed to even catch up to it.

wrote:
On a more serious note, devoid of any anime nonsense, it seems to me
that the energy requirements to intercept an extrasolar comet on a
hyperbolic trajectory would be too great.
Too much fuel would be needed to even catch up to it.


This one has entered a short period solar orbit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/96P/Machholz

Pat

On Dec 5, 12:50*pm, Pat Flannery wrote:
wrote:
On a more serious note, devoid of any anime nonsense, it seems to me
that the energy requirements to intercept an extrasolar comet on a
hyperbolic trajectory would be too great.
Too much fuel would be needed to even catch up to it.

This one has entered a short period solar orbit:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/96P/Machholz

Pat

A better source for this information:
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=96P%2FMachholz+1

I do not trust Wikipedia for anything as any bozo can edit it.