Good old NASA news releases aye... heheh
Mike A'hearn: "Those are all chunks of ice.... size of a golf ball, size of a basketball"
Dr Sunshine: "While they appear to quite large, they are actually quite small.... we are *not* seeing hail sized golf balls.... they are more of a dandelion puff, the width of a human hair."
what the? that's a pretty big contradiction?
These bright focal *spots* (not eventually visible columns) on the night side on the nucleus are amazing, wonder why they decided to specifically not cover that feature? Given Emily specifically asked in Q&A1... and was cut off in Q&A2?
Mike A'hearn: "We know that ice is between a few inches and a couple of feet below the surface, we know that because we saw that, we excavated it with temple 1"
Sorry, but didn't slamming that projectile into Temple1 make *no change* the to associated-hydroxyl (h20) spectrum?
Also... wasn't surface photographs of Temple1 99.975% *not ice*? (see my other iis thread for those specifics)
I sense a bit of reification here... hmmm
2 different types of comets in 1 aye... hmmm... each comet is different? The model is now way way way more complex, as Ahearn said. Also notice Ahearn touched on the resolution of the spectrometer, saying the resolution of their onboard is pretty poor... said "keck" is better???... so i don't see your desire of actual surface points arc-ing spectro's being possible with this test.
PS: Whats up with the Q&A sessions and people calling in? always get cut outs etc...
PPS: for those interested in the news conference,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0x-j1D4oJE