Fireworks Likely When NASA Blows Up Comet
An AP newswire article by Alicia Chang, via ABC Technology News:
Not all dazzling fireworks displays will be on Earth this Independence Day. NASA hopes to shoot off its own celestial sparks in an audacious mission that will blast a stadium-sized hole in a comet half the size of Manhattan. It would give astronomers their first peek at the inside of one of these heavenly bodies.
If all goes as planned, the Deep Impact spacecraft will release a wine barrel-sized probe on a suicide journey, hurtling toward the comet Tempel 1 about 80 million miles away from Earth at the time of impact.
posted by Fergie @ 6/26/2005 11:35:00 AM
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