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11-21-05, 02:22 AM
From two encounters with cold cosmic matter (asteroid, comet, moons), it is becoming apparent that all cold mater beyond a certain distance from a star will be coated with hydrogen peroxide, solid as ice of as a liquid.
The current theory asserts that instead of H2O2, this substance is water....
I will not argue that at present, for there is unfolding another test to determine this.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1505854.htm
>> A mini-robot that was due to land on the surface of an asteroid circling the Sun has been lost, mission scientists say.
Minerva, just 10 centimetres long, was released by a Japanese space probe but was lost before it could land, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) says.
Equipped with a camera and thermometers, Minerva was meant to hop around Itokawa and send data such as surface temperatures and images back to Earth via Hayabusa, the Kyodo news agency reports.
Itokawa, a 600 metre long asteroid that travels on an orbit that takes it between Earth and Mars, is named after Hideo Itokawa, the father of Japan's space exploration program.
It is currently around 290 million kilometres away from Earth.
Hayabusa, which was fired into space on 9 May 2003, has been hovering over Itokawa for almost two months. >>>
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200511/s1510853.htm
>> The unmanned Hayabusa probe - the name means falcon in Japanese - had been due to land on the surface of the 548 metre long asteroid 25143 Itokawa for just one second after a voyage of two and a half years.
But it is unclear whether the probe has completed its delicate mission, a spokesman for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) says.
"The probe launched a landing target marker from a height of 40 metres, then descended to a position 17 metres from the asteroid," said a spokesman for JAXA.
"We are not certain what happened after that."
He says scientists are in communication with the probe and analysing data to try to calculate its exact position, thought to be close to the asteroid, but it is unclear whether there has been a technical problem.
Hayabusa was to have landed on Itokawa for just long enough to allow it to fire a metal pellet into its surface and collect a sample of the material stirred up by the impact. >>>
<< In the most recent photograph, taken on Sunday and published on JAXA's website, the probes shadow can be made out on Itokawa's surface.
Last week it failed in an attempt to launch a miniature robot onto the asteroid's surface to collect data.
The robot, the Minerva, went missing after being released from the probe.
The 500 kilogram Hayabusa has also developed a problem with its positioning control system, while a solar flare has damaged its wing-like solar panels. >>
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200511/s1510976.htm
>> The Hayabusa spacecraft had approached to within metres of the bean-shaped Itokawa asteroid, which lies about 290 million kilometres from Earth.
But it drifted off to somewhere within 100 kilometres.
Tatsuo Oshima, an official at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, says the spacecraft had released a 'target marker', a small metal ball, 40 metres away from the asteroid at 5:30am as planned.
He says it managed to move to within 17 metres of the surface.
But shortly afterward the Hayabusa suffered a glitch and was not able to confirm its altitude, temporarily losing contact with Earth.
Mr Oshima says the spacecraft resumed transmission at 9:30am (Japanese time) but had drifted away from the asteroid, which rotates between Earth and Mars.
"We believe the target marker landed on the surface because Hayabusa moved to the 17-metre point from Itokawa after the release," Mr Oshima said. >>>
>> The ball was to mark the point where the six-metre spacecraft would gather rock and sand from the 500-metre wide asteroid.>>
So another attempt is to be made to land.
This was a US$100 X 10^6, and still it seems the chemistry which is well documented eludes all space controllers.
If the next attempt fails, you can be sure that getting up close and personal with cosmic antimagnetic matter ( diamagnetic H2O2) which explodes (decomposed) upon contact with crude methods is not possible.
A Universe composed of magnetic matter coated with diamagnetic matter is rather an interesting place.
The current theory asserts that instead of H2O2, this substance is water....
I will not argue that at present, for there is unfolding another test to determine this.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1505854.htm
>> A mini-robot that was due to land on the surface of an asteroid circling the Sun has been lost, mission scientists say.
Minerva, just 10 centimetres long, was released by a Japanese space probe but was lost before it could land, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) says.
Equipped with a camera and thermometers, Minerva was meant to hop around Itokawa and send data such as surface temperatures and images back to Earth via Hayabusa, the Kyodo news agency reports.
Itokawa, a 600 metre long asteroid that travels on an orbit that takes it between Earth and Mars, is named after Hideo Itokawa, the father of Japan's space exploration program.
It is currently around 290 million kilometres away from Earth.
Hayabusa, which was fired into space on 9 May 2003, has been hovering over Itokawa for almost two months. >>>
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200511/s1510853.htm
>> The unmanned Hayabusa probe - the name means falcon in Japanese - had been due to land on the surface of the 548 metre long asteroid 25143 Itokawa for just one second after a voyage of two and a half years.
But it is unclear whether the probe has completed its delicate mission, a spokesman for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) says.
"The probe launched a landing target marker from a height of 40 metres, then descended to a position 17 metres from the asteroid," said a spokesman for JAXA.
"We are not certain what happened after that."
He says scientists are in communication with the probe and analysing data to try to calculate its exact position, thought to be close to the asteroid, but it is unclear whether there has been a technical problem.
Hayabusa was to have landed on Itokawa for just long enough to allow it to fire a metal pellet into its surface and collect a sample of the material stirred up by the impact. >>>
<< In the most recent photograph, taken on Sunday and published on JAXA's website, the probes shadow can be made out on Itokawa's surface.
Last week it failed in an attempt to launch a miniature robot onto the asteroid's surface to collect data.
The robot, the Minerva, went missing after being released from the probe.
The 500 kilogram Hayabusa has also developed a problem with its positioning control system, while a solar flare has damaged its wing-like solar panels. >>
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200511/s1510976.htm
>> The Hayabusa spacecraft had approached to within metres of the bean-shaped Itokawa asteroid, which lies about 290 million kilometres from Earth.
But it drifted off to somewhere within 100 kilometres.
Tatsuo Oshima, an official at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, says the spacecraft had released a 'target marker', a small metal ball, 40 metres away from the asteroid at 5:30am as planned.
He says it managed to move to within 17 metres of the surface.
But shortly afterward the Hayabusa suffered a glitch and was not able to confirm its altitude, temporarily losing contact with Earth.
Mr Oshima says the spacecraft resumed transmission at 9:30am (Japanese time) but had drifted away from the asteroid, which rotates between Earth and Mars.
"We believe the target marker landed on the surface because Hayabusa moved to the 17-metre point from Itokawa after the release," Mr Oshima said. >>>
>> The ball was to mark the point where the six-metre spacecraft would gather rock and sand from the 500-metre wide asteroid.>>
So another attempt is to be made to land.
This was a US$100 X 10^6, and still it seems the chemistry which is well documented eludes all space controllers.
If the next attempt fails, you can be sure that getting up close and personal with cosmic antimagnetic matter ( diamagnetic H2O2) which explodes (decomposed) upon contact with crude methods is not possible.
A Universe composed of magnetic matter coated with diamagnetic matter is rather an interesting place.