:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::
"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 7.06.2005 ::
:: RE Deep Impact ::
Worldwide telescopes analyze NASA's comet collision
San Diego Union Tribune
LOS ANGELES – The collision of a NASA space probe and a potato-shaped comet hurled a bright cloud of debris into space at the speed of a jetliner, scientists said Tuesday.
The Hubble Space Telescope took a series of pictures of the July 4 impact that initially showed comet Tempel 1 as a fuzzy dot that grew four times brighter 15 minutes after the collision. The fan-shaped cloud of gas and dust flew outward at about 500 mph.
"This is pretty dramatic," said Paul Feldman, a professor of astronomy and physics at Johns Hopkins University, who observed the impact with the Hubble telescope.
The Hubble findings were among observations pouring in from telescopes in space and on the ground that may help scientists better understand the impact process.
Read more here.
ALSO
A murder mystery in reverse
By Tim Radford
The Guardian UK
Nasa's Deep Impact mission was more than a triumph in human patience. It was also a lesson in humility
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