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Asteroid collision photographed?
On Feb 5, 1:07*am, Pat Flannery wrote:
Damon Hill wrote: And what a debris field! *Han Solo couldn't navigate that on a bicycle. Yeah, it's a neat photo. I wonder if the "star" at the leading edge of it is one of the asteroids involved in the collision. "The main nucleus of the object, P/2010 A2, is actually located outside its dust halo, something that’s never been seen in a comet- like object before." You may be on to something, Pat. /dps |
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Asteroid collision photographed?
snidely wrote:
"The main nucleus of the object, P/2010 A2, is actually located outside its dust halo, something that’s never been seen in a comet- like object before." You may be on to something, Pat. It's either the asteroid, or its location is very coincidental in the photograph. I'm sure going to miss Hubble when it's gone; it really did give us some amazing views of space objects, although I'm still queasy about NASA "colorizing" the photos to make them more spectacular looking (the colors are a _lot_ more subtle as they are transmitted down from the telescope) The person who really would have freaked on seeing the Hubble photos is Chesley Bonestell; the Moon was a lot more boring looking than in his paintings*, but the heavens were a lot wilder looking. * Wernher von Braun to Bonestell as both watched the incoming video from the first Apollo 11 EVA: "Don't worry Chesley, you were right...the Moon was wrong." Pat |
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