Tempel 1 Impact Day After Tomorrow

Posted by Zonk on Saturday July 2, 2005 @09:17AM from the destruction-for-science dept.

TerminaMorte wrote to mention a news.com article detailing the impending contact of the "Deep Impact" satellite with the Tempel 1 comet...at roughly 23,000 miles per hour. from the article: "We know that the crust--the outside shell of a comet and the stuff that comes off a comet--is changed by the solar wind...One of the things that we're curious about is, some people will tell you that comets actually produce organic compounds...We want to see if that's inside." Update: 07/02 22:08 GMT by Z : Updated with correct day.

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2001 by writermike · 2005-07-02 09:42 · Score: 2, Insightful

"My God. It's full of stars."

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Re:It's NASA by MyLongNickName · 2005-07-02 10:20 · Score: 2, Insightful

Metric hours or imperial hours?

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