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Old 05-11-2010, 07:10 AM
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Close up of a comet!!
These are posted in the obs section, but I know quite a few dont regularly look there, but these are great close up images of Comet Hartley taken in the wee hours of today by the NASA epoxi spacecraft.
Now I am really late for workkkkkkk.

http://epoxi.umd.edu/
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Old 05-11-2010, 08:26 AM
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Cool stuff, liz thanks, Ah, bugger work mate, what could be more important, nice Comet Images, or that daily routine of work.

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PS, well I suppose I can say that when every day is Sunday
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the closest images were taken from about 700km away....

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I posted the NASA montage in the Astro Science section Liz.
Amazing images!
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Spectacular!! Thank's Liz and jjj. The textural contrasts on the surface are amazing. It really looks like two objects that have bumped together.
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Awesome images, the closeups are so clear.

It looks like a tumbling potato.

Cheers
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Old 05-11-2010, 04:37 PM
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great stuff liz!!

that was about the same image i was looking at with my binos!!!
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