Comments on: Comet Dust is Very Similar to Asteroids

By: ????

???? — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:03:20 +0000

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By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:55:10 +0000

I agree that Enceladus is a good idea. While we won't be capturing any samples, Cassini is scheduled to perform a low-level orbital pass through the ice geysers in the near future, which should provide us with at least some data about the composition of the clouds as well as the mechanism that causes them.

Marcellus – you got that right…I cannot even begin to count the hours I have spent looking at images, data, etc. from the recent Cassini and Galileo orbiters to Saturn and Jupiter.

I look forward to data from the New Horizions mission to Pluto and Messenger's data from Mercury soon, too – its great to see up-close hi-res images of what appear as little dots, smudges, and dark spots when I view through my telescopes.

By: marcellus

marcellus — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:13:06 +0000

We should have a Cassini type orbiter around every planet in the solar system.

Then we'd never get away from the computer.

By: NeoGuru

NeoGuru — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:27:06 +0000

stargazerdude – Enceladus is a good idea – but it's a loooong way off. It'd be tough.

By: stargazerdude

stargazerdude — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 13:57:38 +0000

I'd like to see a Stardust-like mission (fly through & sample return) sent to Enceladus.

By: actionforspace.com

actionforspace.com — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:05:12 +0000

Fascinating. We need more missions like Stardust to learn exactly what is the nature of comets and asteroids so that we have a clearer picture of how our solar system (and all of the other solar systems) formed.