Wild 2 images
Posted: 03.01.2004, 02:07
Is it me, or is Wild 2 an exceptionally ugly-looking object?
http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/images/stardust_wild2.jpg
http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/images/stardust_wild2.jpg
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Posted: 03.01.2004, 21:14
Its an asteroid so what? If that is ugly, than all asteroids are ugly.
Posted: 03.01.2004, 21:27
It is a remarkably ugly object 
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However, it's one of the most remarkable photographs I've seen since Halley (http://www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/image/0008/halleynuc_giotto_big.gif).
You too might be ugly if you were 4 and a half billion years old
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For those who don't know, Wild 2 is a comet that was visited yesterday (Friday 3 Jan 04) by a NASA mission called Stardust, which collected samples of dust that will be returned to Earth in 2006. See here: http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/.
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However, it's one of the most remarkable photographs I've seen since Halley (http://www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/image/0008/halleynuc_giotto_big.gif).
You too might be ugly if you were 4 and a half billion years old
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For those who don't know, Wild 2 is a comet that was visited yesterday (Friday 3 Jan 04) by a NASA mission called Stardust, which collected samples of dust that will be returned to Earth in 2006. See here: http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/.