Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Comet 73P-B in outburst!
Image Credit ESOComet 73P is still providing surprises. Yesterday Fragment 73P-B was reported to be in outburst again, with the Sun-forward sub-fragment being substantially brighter. The ESA's Very Large Telescope has also taken detailed images of 73P-B, showing more details of the fragments of the fragment (remember that Fragment B recently broke up). Recent amateur images of 73-P are here and here.
# posted by Ian Musgrave @ 7:11 am 
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You beat me to a post again! ;-) You also picked the same image from the press release that I was about to use.
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: 9:29 am
: 9:29 am
Oops, I just spotted that you've put ESA (European Space Agency) rather than ESO (European Southern Observatory).
# posted by : 9:32 am
: 9:32 am
Both of these (beating Stuart and misattributing the ESO) are due to me being kicked out of bed around 5.00 am by smallestone. As a result I can get early beaking news, but by brain is too befudlled to catch typos. Thanks to the error heads up Stuart.
But Stuart, you could probably do a nice informed pots, rather than the "oooh pretty!" post I did.
But Stuart, you could probably do a nice informed pots, rather than the "oooh pretty!" post I did.
But it was pretty ;-) and it was a bit too late at night for me to write much either. I presumed that Tom or Phil would take advantage of the time zone difference to do a better job of it while I was asleep.
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