geonuc wrote:Sigma_Orionis wrote:geonuc wrote:Once again, I get no respect.
Of course you don't, you're a Nuclear-Geological-Legal-Pinko-Commie-Liberal
But I'm a very respectable NGLPCL.
Sez you!
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Rosetta/Philae
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Re: Rosetta/Philae
by Sigma_Orionis » Wed Nov 19, 2014 2:18 pm
Sez you!
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Re: Rosetta/Philae
by cid » Wed Nov 26, 2014 9:26 am
Rommie -- saw the NOVA show on the mission. The pix of the comet nucleus were astonishing. They raised the question
of whether the comet is two impacted bodies or just shaped by erosion. From what was in the show, the comet
seemed to be more the product of erosion than an impactor (two big nodules with a connecting neck).
My question is, if there are enough eruptions in the neck that this thingie breaks into two big rocks, then what?
So we have two rocks not touching but accompanying each other due to gravity, or might the various eruptions make them
separate, and now we have two comets? Do they become separate named objects, or something-1 and something-2, or what?
Curious minions want to know...
of whether the comet is two impacted bodies or just shaped by erosion. From what was in the show, the comet
seemed to be more the product of erosion than an impactor (two big nodules with a connecting neck).
My question is, if there are enough eruptions in the neck that this thingie breaks into two big rocks, then what?
So we have two rocks not touching but accompanying each other due to gravity, or might the various eruptions make them
separate, and now we have two comets? Do they become separate named objects, or something-1 and something-2, or what?
Curious minions want to know...
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Re: Rosetta/Philae
by Rommie » Wed Nov 26, 2014 1:04 pm
I'm no comet expert, but I know they break apart really often.
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