Sure I will, anytime, but you need to understand what proof means.
A friend has posted to me this link and I derived these few lines about their investigations of the contents of the Deep Impact:
- Spitzer detected specific colors of infrared light that indicated that Tempel 1 contained clays and carbonates, the minerals of limestone and seashells.
Clays and carbonates both require liquid water to form.
"How do clays and carbonates form in frozen comets where there isn't liquid water?" said Carey M. Lisse, a research scientist at the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University who is presenting the Spitzer data today at a meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences in Cambridge, England. "Nobody expected this."
2. Spitzer also detected minerals known as crystalline silicates. Astronomers had already known that comets contain silicates, but silicates line up in neat crystal structures only when they are warmed to 1,300 degrees Fahrenheit - temperatures reached at around the orbit of Mercury - and then cooled. "How do clays and carbonates form in frozen comets where there isn't liquid water?" said Carey M. Lisse, a research scientist at the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University who is presenting the Spitzer data today at a meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences in Cambridge, England. "Nobody expected this."
"How do you do that and then how do you put that stuff into a comet that forms out by Pluto?" Dr. Lisse said.
3. Observations of the Deep Impact collision confirmed that the comet is mostly empty space. The outer layers of Tempel 1 are "unbelievably fragile, less strong than a snow bank," said Michael A'Hearn, the mission's principal investigator, during a telephone news conference yesterday. "There is no indication we got down to any solid ice."
The comet, about five miles long and three miles wide, is fluffy and porous, with about 75 percent of it just empty space, Dr. A'Hearn said.
"The ice is all in the form of tiny grains" from 0.00004 to 0.004 inches in diameter, he said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/07/science/07comet.html
The comet, about five miles long and three miles wide, is fluffy and porous, with about 75 percent of it just empty space, Dr. A'Hearn said.
"The ice is all in the form of tiny grains" from 0.00004 to 0.004 inches in diameter, he said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/07/science/07comet.html
Note: I wrote to the Canadian Astronomer about the objects circling around the earth, and in case he replies, I shall - by God's will - inform you whether it is to my side or to your side.