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Rosetta update: Dirty snowball is "dry like hell"

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Fri, 26 Sep 2014 17:20 UTC

The European Space Agency's Rosetta Mission to the comet 67/P may be rewriting everything astronomers thought they knew about the nature of comets. The latest high-resolution images of the comet nucleus have astonished scientists around the world, revealing a remarkably jagged, pitted, black as coal surface. It is nothing like the so-called dirty snowball or fluffy ice ball that mainstream astronomers have long envisioned. Most astonishingly, scientists have reported they have not found a single trace of water ice on the comet surface. It is, in the words of mission scientist Holger Sierks, "dry like hell."

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Reader Comments

jowblow · 2014-09-27T22:55:10Z

What?

The scientists were mistaken? How on Earth could that be? I thought they were the legitimate authority on all things.

squirrel · 2014-09-28T07:16:50Z

Let it be known,

And do you understand that tier two scientist have been teaching lies since the 60's
They are not the know it alls they profess to be, Tier one scientists are the ones that aren't telling
the truth of the things they know. They are the property of TPTB, and the truth will not come out without
wrenching it out of them. But james McCanney has been a beam of light in a dark room.

gdpetti · 2014-09-28T22:20:35Z

Hmmm.

Some only learn from direct experience, like that Christian analogy about how some have to feel things for themselves to 'believe' in anything, which could be blamed on their programming of course and how hard it is to work out of into some form of neutral space from which to they can get a 'fair and balanced' view of reality. Hard to make a real assessment otherwise and as always, 'better late than never'.