NASA: Mars satellites menaced by speeding SPACE ALIEN

A pity we won't see it from Earth... but hopefully, some great pictures from the spacecraft.

Does anyone know whether the Indians have planned for MOM to duck behind Mars, too, or will it be exposed?

says:

"Its actual composition is what's getting astronomers' hearts beating faster."

Possibly they should have named it Epinephrine instead of something that sounds like a railway point component.

funny

Spat my coffee out "1.7715 per cent of the maximum velocity of a sheep in a vacuum!"

I love the way astrophysicians get excited... when for most people pr0n does the trick, astrophysicians prefer comets observable from Mars... classy! ^^

Artists rendition of space phenomenons

have never impressed me.

I love all the comments where autocorrect has turned comet to comment - artists renditions of comments flying through space - very surrealist.

"Since that initial burst of light, the comet has dimmed to about half the brightness theoretical models would suggest. Astronomers speculate that these volatile chemicals may now have burned off, leaving much less material behind."

Boy, you'd think they could have run a little spectrographic analysis of that "light" and found out what "volitile chemicals" might have been trapped in the "snowball" and heated to incandescence by our good old solar "wind".

From my previous post on cometary phenomena:

Icy snowball, harummmph! Comets are rocky meteors, period. They think there is water ice in their composition, the fools. What they measure is HO, the hydroxl byproduct of the breakdown of rock minerals by electric arc discharge due to the solar electric current, otherwise stupidly misnamed solar "wind". Funny how so many comet closeup pics show dumbbell shaped rock. I wonder what a magnetic field would have to do with that anomaly? Funny how they have to spend zillions of dollars to settle the issue because mainstream astronomy runs screaming, tearing at their ears, at the mention of (gasp) ELECTRICITY, out there in "empty" space. Ever look at early astonomers' drawings of comets? Does the term "jets" ring a bell? Jets of water? What, like a little water spout on a rowboat lake? Gimme a break. Jets of plasma confined in a magnetic Langmuir Sheath is what the astrohacks see dancing the St. Elmo at the end of their red and white canes.

www.thunderbolts.info.

Go on, hit me with your best thumb down, ya rigorless faithful.

For Science! and for Teh Awesum!

there has got to be something in orbit at the end of it's useful life that we can deliberately leave to take video and sensor readings before impact, or to get a real close view of it zipping by...

Like a rabbit on the

Highway, a cometary one at least.

(gets coat)