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Deep Impact

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andrsn

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For anyone interested, Deep Impact is a mission I worked on with the University of Maryland and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratories a few years ago. I was working for Ball Aerospace at the time, but none the less, this two part satellite is expected to impact with its target, Comet Temple 1, on July 4th this year.

A good friend made me realize it might be worth sharing with all of you since it's quite a high-profile project with the public.

If something goes wrong, remember, I had nothing to do with it! :blackeye

Here it is: Deep Impact

Later,
Anderson
 
Awsome! :D I'm interested, my dads a physicist and is crazy about this mission, well any mission really, I thought he was going to have a heart attack a few years ago when they re-mapped the temperature of the cosmos rofl well he said it was significant enough to get exited about???
So how many people are going to join me in a death defying crash on July 4th?
 
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You mean NASA is trying to crash something on purpose? Finally, a little truth in advertising!

23,000 mph impact velocity, with NASA at the helm, what can possibly go wrong? ;)

Very cool. Thanks for sharing.

Peter S.
(ex-NASA contractor)
 
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Does anybody know if this impact will be visible without a telescope? Its 2 am for me, but would be worth a look.

Connor
 
Heres a quote from the deep impact website


I would imagine that Temple 1 is outside the moons orbit, so I guess not I doubt it could be seen from earth even with a high resoloution telescope because the crater would only be a fraction of an arc second across and the earths atmosphere would not let that sort of detail through optically
Of course thats just a guess I have been known to be wrong (very frequently rofl)
 
OK In perspective, here's an image taken from earth through a 14" telescope (very big by amateur standards)
 

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I've red in an article somewhere that the impact will be visible to the naked eye in some parts of the western hemisphere. If this is true it would be the greatest Independence Day fireworks ever, don’t you think? :friday
 
Well apparently you might actually be able to see a change in the cometes brightness after impact: http://deepimpact.umd.edu/amateur/beginner/sec2.shtml




So if you know exactly where to look in the sky you might actually see it
 
Magnitude 5 or six objects are very faint to the naked eye unless you have very clear and dark skies and no moon.

Adrian
 
One of my friends still working there told me that we might be able to see it if we run up into the mountains. I think it's supposed to be low on the horizon.

Thanks for the info, Alison.

A
 
3 Days to go Am I the only one with my name on the space craft? Please dont let me crash alone :waterwork
 
Outstanding! I saw an engineer on TV stating that this operation was like 'trying to shoot a bullet with a bullet, while riding a bullet' !!
I think the mathematicians have to be proud of that one :king
Peace,
Erik Y.
 
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As soon as the PR gonks release some of our photos, I will see what I can get hold of and post. We (or rather our Rosetta spacecraft) had a ring-side seat at "only" 88 million kliometers away from the impact....

It does give us an awful lot of data to sift through before we try to land on one in about 6 years.....

Bret
 
I heard on the Radio today that some fruitloop somewhere ( USA maybe)
is trying to sue Nassa because the impact through her Astrology chart out.
Maybe they can do it again but this time strap her on the pointy end


Crusty
 
What? Not a Californian? Oh, the shame of it all! Out-goofied by a mere Russian. I hide my face, I tear my shirt . . .
 
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