Mark Bracewell wrote:
> I am having trouble finding the predicted hour of impact.
I may be wrong, but I'm not sure that anything will be visible
at the time of impact or immediately after this. It should take
several hours (or days?) to see the expanding cloud from here,
if this is visible from here at all. My thinking is that the
impact would have the same effect as though the comet suddenly
starts to outgass much more than usual. It will take some time
until the new particles start to form a noticeable tail/coma.
What do you think? I may be completely mistaken in all this,
but hey, it is not every day we see something smash into a
comet, so how should I know what to expect?! :-)
- Alex
Received on Fri Mar 25 17:15:51 2005