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- Sat Oct 02, 2010 3:29 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Hubble s Lagoon (2010 Oct 02)
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Re: APOD: Hubble s Lagoon (2010 Oct 02)
What is the estimated distance between grains of dust or individual gas molecules in a cloud like this?
- Wed Oct 07, 2009 10:15 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: A Doubled Ringed Basin in Mercury (2009 Oct 7)
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Re: A Doubled Ringed Basin in Mercury (2009 Oct 7)
What would be the odds of a double impact from an object torn in two prior to hitting Mercury? I'm thinking of the comet Shoemaker-Levy that hit Jupiter a few years back. It passed within the Roche limit of Jupiter and got shredded. Then, it came back around and made a string of strikes. However, du...