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Net traffic explodes for NASA's comet collision

Roy Mark writes for internetnews.com:

Deep Impact's spectacular collision with the comet Tempel 1 resulted in an explosion of record traffic to the NASA Web site to see how it looked. The hyper-speed demise of the ship's probe, as it smashed into a comet half the size of Manhattan, generated approximately 80 million page views.

"It's off the scale," Brian Dunbar, NASA's Internet Services Manager, told internetnews.com, noting the previous traffic record was 30 million page views for the Mars landing in 2004. "Hands down, it was a record day."

posted by Fergie @ 7/05/2005 03:44:00 PM