Comments on: Deep Impact!

By: Robert Carnegie

Robert Carnegie — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 21:44:52 +0000

Did I correctly hear on BBC coverage that success of the mission was announced in the control room by a tannoy call for more peanuts??

Re Brian Cox, is it impolitic, or redundant, to mention the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists(TM)?

By: Candy

Candy — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 18:38:48 +0000

The program *snip* from Sticks was very entertaining! Great job, Phil.

By: Avian

Avian — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 16:50:39 +0000

My truck’s license plate is GORT. Hee hee…

What a mission. I had a C08 all ready to go, and Kansas was slammed by the biggest storms of the year last night – what great timing!

We’re coving all the latest developments at Stars Over Kansas.

By: Roy Batty

Roy Batty — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 10:54:08 +0000

Good interview Phil! .. just this moment watched it

By: mickal555

mickal555 — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 09:13:30 +0000

I was on paltalk with fellow BABBIlers- it was amazing!

The impact was huge! .

I’m going to try to track it down with my scope(it’s an 8″ so I hope it gets it) tonight if the clouds behave .

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â€œ0345 GMT (11:45 p.m. EDT)
A jar of peanuts is being passed around the control room. This is a tradition in which the controllers have a handful for good luckâ€?

Even the NASA cannot escape from clutches of superstition. I think its a shame!
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I think it’s all in good fun

P.S.
I’ve got all the images from the NASA TV coverage colected here: http://www.scotsons-shack.com/dimages.htm

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 07:51:42 +0000

Just got back from the Denver Museum of Natural History….They had engineers from Ball, and some scientists from CU talking about it, and NASA tv during the impact. It was amazing…

By: Ajith

Ajith — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 03:57:30 +0000

“0345 GMT (11:45 p.m. EDT)
A jar of peanuts is being passed around the control room. This is a tradition in which the controllers have a handful for good luck”

Even the NASA cannot escape from clutches of superstition. I think its a shame!

By: bad novice

bad novice — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 22:37:14 +0000

I’ll be trying to see this with my 8″ Dob. (staying up tonight !!). I’m not kidding myself into thinking that it would be spectacular to watch .
I was just watching a CBS news item. After, what i thought, was a decent coverage with expert comments, the anchor commented in a smart-ass way, “Hope it wont be set in a collision course with Earth”. Hello!, the NASA team was just saying that the comet was too big to be thrown out of its current orbit. I hope the anchors listen to their own news items

By: Michelle Rochon

Michelle Rochon — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 20:21:59 +0000

Now THAT is something I can’t wait to see the result of. Too bad I won’t be able to see it myself, or I would have… I’m not much for viewing events over the internet. But I might make an exception for that one