(meteorobs) Leonid Meteor Storm 2032
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Mon Nov 12 09:23:43 EST 2007
For information on the Deep Impact mission, here's a good place to start.
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/deepimpact/index.cfm
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From: "Catlin" <cat at catlin.force9.co.uk>
> Hi Anne, thanks for the enlightenment, pun intended, which I wholly
> subscribe to.
>
> What I was trying to say was there is probably, maybe outside the
> universe, unimaginable elements. Not proven/not tested and based on the
> belief of total infinity.
>
> Slight switch now, but a connection to comets, meteors and elements
> within the universe. Does anyone know the results from the experiment
> conducted around 12 months ago, maybe a little longer, when the rocked
> launched sent a probe the size of a washing machine to impact and burst
> into a comet? All I recall is that masses of material spewed out in a
> hugh cloud and I have heard nothing about it since.
>
> Clear skies
>
> Michael
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org
> [mailto:meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org] On Behalf Of Anne van Weerden
> Sent: 10 November 2007 21:27
> To: Global Meteor Observing Forum
> Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Leonid Meteor Storm 2032
>
> > How much of space is grey/black and could there
> > be a color(s) that we have not experienced before involving an element
> > other than light?
>
> >Michael
> Leeds England>
>
> I am not sure I understand this sentence, but can't resist: whatever you
>
> think of, we would not experience it as a colour, because a colour is
> what we see with our eyes which are sensitive of a few frequencies of
> light. Space is as coloured as Earth is, and the reason we would see
> space rather black and white than coloured is because our eyes evolved
> during sunshine, at least for the main part, our eyes therefore are not
> very sensitive in the dark. Space is overall too far away from suns for
> us to see colours. If you would take a flashlight to a planet you would
> see colours as on Earth.
> That is also why pictures can be more coloured than what we see in the
> night, they can 'add up' the incoming photons, we can't, our eyes
> process them immediately. We can see colours in meteors because they can
>
> be just bright enough for our eyes. (This last remark is to be not too
> much off-topic :)
>
> Anne
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