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Old 21-11-2010, 07:25 PM
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Err …. Ok .. I didn't realise that when I read it .. sorry about that.

The more interesting one is:

Previously unobserved water lines detected in the post-impact spectrum by R.J Baber et al University College London (Oct 2006).

In this one, they talk about 'Solar Pumped Flourescent' (SPF) transitions of H2O following the Tempel 1 impact. (SPFs are apparently transitions from doubly-excited stretch states).
The spectrum centred on the range 2.894 ±0.040 μm. They also talk about measuring secondary peaks shortly after impacts, which they attribute to Solar or Stochastic Heating (SH), (apparently states with 'three or four quanta of vibrational excitation'), although the actual mechanism that created these is still not fully understood, yet. (I think).

Interesting paper (and written in English).

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