(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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