http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/02/15/stardust-spacecraft-sends-home-close-ups-of-a-comet/ 80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day's most compelling topics. Wed, 23 May 2012 16:07:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/02/15/stardust-spacecraft-sends-home-close-ups-of-a-comet/comment-page-1/#comment-639833 nick Wed, 16 Feb 2011 01:57:21 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=26298#comment-639833 For a second, I saw "material fell back to the comet" and thought to myself, "No way! They shoot material off like nobody's business." Then I remembered that NASA is probably smart enough to have scheduled the impact for when the comet wasn't near the sun and spewing vapors into space. Duh. For a second, I saw “material fell back to the comet” and thought to myself, “No way! They shoot material off like nobody’s business.” Then I remembered that NASA is probably smart enough to have scheduled the impact for when the comet wasn’t near the sun and spewing vapors into space. Duh.

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