> One thing that bugs me...Has NASA developed hyperspace communications and > not mentioned that? The NASA reports have visual confirmation via > downloaded > date of impact just 5 minutes after the officially confirmed impact at 52 > minutes before the hour. The light needs close to 7 minutes 26 seconds to > get > to JPL. Was impact really earlier or have I missed something? Or was the > "image showing the tell-tale signs of high-speed impact" actually not a > mentioned, but rather just an image confirming the trajectory with 100% > probability > of impact? This is important for back-yard amateurs to know who followed > the > event.
Both times are in Earth-Receive time, which means it already includes the one-way light time. The impact occurred at 10:52 PM PDT ERT, which we could tell when we lost the signal from the impactor. Of course, the impact really occurred 7+ minutes before that, but it took that long for the signal to reach Earth. Five minutes later at 10:57 PM PDT ERT, we received the first image from the flyby spacecraft confirming the impact. Ron Baalke ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
