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Title: end of an era
Post by: Modas on September 19, 2003, 11:43:05 AM

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/09/19/galileo.crash/index.html (http://Galileo)

. It snapped the first picture of an asteroid with a moon. And in 1994, a year before it began orbiting Jupiter, it witnessed the biggest explosion ever recorded on a planetary body, a comet that struck Jupiter with hundreds of times the explosive force of the world's nuclear arsenals.


Anyone know if the pictures of this impact are avalible anyhere???

Title: end of an era
Post by: Furball on September 19, 2003, 11:50:07 AM

Hasn't happened yet

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The Galileo spacecraft will dive into Jupiter's nightside Sunday.

You need to swap round the URL and text in that link you posted!

Title: end of an era
Post by: Chairboy on September 19, 2003, 12:08:03 PM

Where would the pictures come from?  The secret United States Space Navy battlecruiser Ticonderoga?  Or the deep space research facility on Io where scientists are analyzing alien DNA strands recovered in the deserts of Iraq?

Title: end of an era
Post by: Staga on September 19, 2003, 12:20:17 PM

http://www.geocities.com/EntLineage/1701D-ship.html

Title: end of an era
Post by: gofaster on September 19, 2003, 12:50:59 PM

Quote

Originally posted by Furball
Hasn't happened yet

He's from the future.

Title: end of an era
Post by: Modas on September 19, 2003, 02:38:34 PM

LOL :D :D

Sorry, I wasn't clear.

I wasn't looking for pictures of the galileo impact.  Was looking for pictures of the astroid impact that I quoted from the article.


hehehehe :D

Yes, I'm actually several days ahead of everyone else in time.  That would explain why I don't get shot down in the MA.  I'm not actually where you think I am :D

Title: end of an era
Post by: Mini D on September 19, 2003, 02:44:16 PM

In the grand scheme of things.. the pictures weren't that much to look at.  It's just a tiny plume coming out of a gaseous planet.  Of course, the fact that you could see it happen speaks volumes for the enormity of the impact...

I know the first PentiumPro supercomputer modeled the impact and it was a virtual match to the photos taken.  I'll see if I can dig them up.

MiniD

Title: end of an era
Post by: Mini D on September 19, 2003, 02:51:35 PM

Some pics can be found here:

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/sl9/comet_images.html

MiniD