{"id":30400,"date":"2010-11-07T09:11:42","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T09:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/comet-flyby-yields-close-ups-of-the-lumpy-icy-hartley-2-80beats\/"},"modified":"2010-11-07T09:11:42","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T09:11:42","slug":"comet-flyby-yields-close-ups-of-the-lumpy-icy-hartley-2-80beats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/comet-flyby-yields-close-ups-of-the-lumpy-icy-hartley-2-80beats.php","title":{"rendered":"Comet Flyby Yields Close-ups of the Lumpy, Icy Hartley 2 | 80beats"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hartley2\"This morning, NASA’s EPOXI<\/a> mission whizzed by the comet Hartley 2<\/a>, coming as near as 450 miles to the comet at 8 a.m. and snapping pictures all the while. The icy comet is less than a mile in diameter and has an irregular shape that one NASA researcher recently described<\/a> as “a cross between a bowling pin and a pickle.”<\/p>

The images are already streaming in: Head to Bad Astronomy<\/a> for more pictures and a discussion of what these snapshots tell us about Hartley 2.<\/p>

This is the second cometary encounter for this spacecraft–under a previous mission called Deep Impact<\/a> the spacecraft sent an impactor hurtling into the comet Tempel 1, allowing the craft to photograph the excavated debris and the impact crater.<\/p>

Related Content:
80beats: Holy Hartley 2! What to Know About NASA’s Comet Flyby<\/a>
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Bad Astronomy: Ten Things You Don’t Know About Comets<\/a>
DISCOVER: NASA Takes a Wild Comet Ride<\/a><\/p>

Image:NASA<\/em><\/p>

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