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NASA Prepares to Launch Comet-Buster

Posted by michael on from the where's-the-kaboom dept.

Chessphoon writes "NASA's Deep Impact, a spacecraft named after the 1998 movie, is scheduled to launch on January 12. If all goes as planned, the spacecraft will collide with Comet Tempel 1 six months later on July 4, and create a crater so that the inside of the comet can be analyzed."

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  1. Do your homework... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The NASA project was *not* named after the movie. Read http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/01/01/comet.bus ter.ap/index.html
    for the real story.

  2. More information.... by NOT-2-QUICK · · Score: 2, Informative

    From a previous slashdot article.

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  3. it wasnt named AFTER the movie by cheekyboy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Can the editors get a clue, as said in other articles else where on the net, the name DEEP IMPACT was determined about the same time as the movie title was, but was 100% a coincedence and not chosen because of a movie.

    Yes a small anal point, but jeez, you guys fail basic Journalism 101 class dudes.

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