{"id":28993,"date":"2010-10-11T17:24:01","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T17:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/28-days-to-go\/"},"modified":"2010-10-11T17:24:01","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T17:24:01","slug":"28-days-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/28-days-to-go.php","title":{"rendered":"28 Days To Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/tomsastroblog.com\/images\/wise100710.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b8346_wise100710sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><p>Conet 103P\/Hartley 2 in the infrared by the WISE spacecraft.  Click for larger. Image credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/UCLA <\/p><\/div><p><\/p><p>There are just 28 days to go before EPOXI flys past comet 103P\/Hartley 2.&nbsp; Before I forget, Hartley 2 may become a naked-eye comet before all is said and done.<\/p><p>The EPOXI spacecraft will pass just 435 miles (700 km) from the comet and will mark the fifth time a comet has been imaged close up.&nbsp; The speed of the passing by will be 7.6 miles per second (12.3 km\/sec) so hopefully things will go smoothly with the camera.<\/p><p>The spacecraft is closing the distance at about 607,000 miles per day or about 976,000 km per day so it&rsquo;s a ways off yet but gaining fast.<\/p><p>The image at the top of the post is from the WISE spacecraft taken in the infrared back in May 2010, the tail you can see is just over a million miles long (1.8 million km).&nbsp; You can <a title=\"REad more about the comet at the WISE site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/WISE\/multimedia\/gallery\/pia13438.html\" target=\"_blank\">read more about the comet and of course WISE here at the image source<\/a>.<\/p><p>The image below is from the Hubble Space Telescope.&nbsp; The blue color was added after the fact.&nbsp; Originally the image was black and white and recorded overall brightness.&nbsp; Essentially what they did was make a brightness map.&nbsp; There is another version of same image (no graphics) at <a title=\"Hubble and comet Hartley 2\" href=\"http:\/\/hubblesite.org\/newscenter\/archive\/releases\/2010\/35\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hubblesite<\/a>.<\/p><div><a href=\"http:\/\/tomsastroblog.com\/images\/hubble100710.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b8346_hubble100710sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><p>Brightness map of Hartley 2 by Hubble.  Click for larger. <\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conet 103P\/Hartley 2 in the infrared by the WISE spacecraft. Click for larger. Image credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/UCLA There are just 28 days to go before EPOXI flys past comet 103P\/Hartley 2.&nbsp; Before I forget, Hartley 2 may become a naked-eye comet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/28-days-to-go.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}