Starship Asterisk*

BillBixby wrote:
Another landing coming up. I hope all the engineers have there DUCKS in a row, know how many feet are in a yard and Yards to the meter. For some reason I worry when different countries with different measurement systems get together to work on a project.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_system wrote:
<<The United States remains the only industrialised country that has not adopted the metric system as its official system of measurement. Many sources also cite Liberia and Burma as the only other countries not to have done so.>>

Ann wrote:Spaghettification and meat sauce?

DavidLeodis wrote:Through the "tidal forces" link I learnt a new word:- spaghettification.

neufer wrote:

eSpace wrote:
Just a minor clarification: The actual rotation rate is just over 12 hours rather than a "few hours". Makes a difference when you're trying to put a lander down....

Few (?), a. [OE. fewe, feawe.] Not many; small, limited, or confined in number; -- indicating a small portion of units or individuals constituing a whole; often, by ellipsis of a noun, a few people. "Are not my days few?" Job x. 20.

• Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Act 1, Scene 3

LORD POLONIUS: Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame!

• The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,
  And you are stay'd for. There; my blessing with thee!
  And these few precepts in thy memory
  See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
  Nor any unproportioned thought his act.
  Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
  Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
  Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
  But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
  Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware
  Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in,
  Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee.
  Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
  Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
  Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
  But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
  For the apparel oft proclaims the man,
  And they in France of the best rank and station
  Are of a most select and generous chief in that.
  Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
  For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
  And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
  This above all: to thine ownself be true,
  And it must follow, as the night the day,
  Thou canst not then be false to any man.

neufer wrote:

eSpace wrote:
Just a minor clarification: The actual rotation rate is just over 12 hours rather than a "few hours". Makes a difference when you're trying to put a lander down....

Few (?), a. [OE. fewe, feawe.] Not many; small, limited, or confined in number; -- indicating a small portion of units or individuals constituing a whole; often, by ellipsis of a noun, a few people. "Are not my days few?" Job x. 20.

• Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Act 1, Scene 3

LORD POLONIUS: Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame!

• The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,
  And you are stay'd for. There; my blessing with thee!
  And these few precepts in thy memory
  See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
  Nor any unproportioned thought his act.
  Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
  Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
  Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
  But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
  Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware
  Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in,
  Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee.
  Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
  Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
  Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
  But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
  For the apparel oft proclaims the man,
  And they in France of the best rank and station
  Are of a most select and generous chief in that.
  Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
  For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
  And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
  This above all: to thine ownself be true,
  And it must follow, as the night the day,
  Thou canst not then be false to any man.

neufer wrote:

Chris Peterson wrote:

Guest wrote:
No way that can be asymmetric evaporation/assimilation...
That is clearly 2 distinct object that have come together and are on the grand journey together.

There is nowhere near enough information available at this point to make that kind of assertion.

The large number of binary/double asteroids would suggest that this is not an unreasonable assertion.

All of the suggestions remain viable hypotheses.

Chris Peterson wrote:

Guest wrote:
No way that can be asymmetric evaporation/assimilation...
That is clearly 2 distinct object that have come together and are on the grand journey together.

There is nowhere near enough information available at this point to make that kind of assertion.

Chris Peterson wrote:
All of the suggestions remain viable theories.

Guest wrote:No way that can be asymmetric evaporation/assimilation... That is clearly 2 distinct object that have come together and are on the grand journey together.

tomatoherd wrote:Why do we need a theory as to why it is this shape?

Joules wrote:

NGC3314 wrote:
They may have been arbitrarily re-centered for display at a central position.

Could be. There's no stars visible to verify the background, so we'll have to wait a few weeks for better imagery.

eSpace wrote:
Just a minor clarification: The actual rotation rate is just over 12 hours rather than a "few hours". Makes a difference when you're trying to put a lander down....

• Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Act 1, Scene 3

• The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,
  And you are stay'd for. There; my blessing with thee!
  And these few precepts in thy memory
  See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
  Nor any unproportioned thought his act.
  Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
  Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
  Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
  But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
  Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware
  Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in,
  Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee.
  Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
  Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
  Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
  But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
  For the apparel oft proclaims the man,
  And they in France of the best rank and station
  Are of a most select and generous chief in that.
  Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
  For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
  And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
  This above all: to thine ownself be true,
  And it must follow, as the night the day,
  Thou canst not then be false to any man.

NGC3314 wrote:They may have been arbitrarily recentered for display at a central position.

Joules wrote:Center of rotation/mass is within or near the neck.

Joules wrote:
Center of rotation/mass is within or near the neck. The smaller lobe must mass near as much as the larger, so composition must be different.
Iron/nickel vs rock+ice or mostly rock vs mostly ice?

Joules wrote:
From uniform albedo, everything looks to be covered with coat of dust.

• Or is 67P covered with snow:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/67P/Churyumov%E2%80%93Gerasimenko wrote:
On 6 June 2014 water vapor was detected being released from 67P at a rate of roughly 1 litre per second.