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Deep Impact T-Bone
That's right. A T-Bone. The media has incorectly implied that DI is
actually heading directly into the comet. In fact, it's more like a garbage can getting T-Boned by a 200 KM/HR. bullet train at an intersection. This is an intersect mission. Temple 1 travels at 23,000 MPH. That is the velocity of the impact as DI crosses it's path. |
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I thought it was more 'getting run over'. as in comet coming up behind at 63,000mph, and the probe traveling at 40,000mph..the difference being 23,000mph. Otherwise in a side impact...how is NASA supposed to get pictures of the crater as it 'flies by'? |
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"pay1439" wrote in message news ROC Wrote: That's right. A T-Bone. The media has incorectly implied that DI is actually heading directly into the comet. In fact, it's more like a garbage can getting T-Boned by a 200 KM/HR. bullet train at an intersection. This is an intersect mission. Temple 1 travels at 23,000 MPH. That is the velocity of the impact as DI crosses it's path. I thought it was more 'getting run over'. as in comet coming up behind at 63,000mph, and the probe traveling at 40,000mph..the difference being 23,000mph. Otherwise in a side impact...how is NASA supposed to get pictures of the crater as it 'flies by'? The comet is travelling at 23,000 mph, not 63,000. That is what was reported |
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Wow, there wouldn't be much left of the garbage can if that were the
case....... "ROC" wrote in message news:9Blxe.119508$on1.33765@clgrps13... In fact, it's more like a garbage can getting T-Boned by a 200 KM/HR. bullet train at an intersection. |
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I knew I wasn't crazy...although this information could be wrong too.
"At 1:52 a.m. Eastern time tomorrow, barring a last-minute mishap, comet Tempel 1, a lumpy, Manhattan Island-size potato hurtling through space at 66,000 mph, will overtake the 820-pound "impactor" dropped off in its path by a NASA spacecraft poking along at 43,000 mph." Rest of the article is here http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...070201323.html Everyother article I've read only states that the impact will occur at 23,000mph. |
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