[Phys-L] Deep Impact

[Brian Whatcott <betwys1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>]

Alerted by the poetry list to which I subscribe, (!)
I repeat here a note, supposing you might be interested in the
comet impact experiment mounted in January by NASA.
First of several impacts is due to take place in about one hour.

Brian Whatcott

> Sender: poetryforthought@yahoogroups.com
>
> Subject: Deep Impact
>
> Dear Members,
>
> For anyone who might be interested in Deep Impact here is the web
> address where you can watch video on it. You might even get
> inspiration for a good poem...Aloha, Connie
>
>  <http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/deepimpact_front/index.html>
>
> Humankind will get it's first look inside a comet tonight. NASA
> scientists working on the Deep Impact mission will steer a 39-inch
> wide impactor spacecraft into the comet Tempel 1 over 80 million
> miles away. A flyby spacecraft will observe the impact and send back
> pictures and other scientific data back to Earth.
>
>
>
> "So you'll be witnessing tonight, for the first time ever, the
> unveiling of what comet's interiors are made of," said Jet
> Propulsion Laboratory Director Dr. Charles Elachi. "So imagine that
> tomorrow our knowledge of our solar system will be different than
> what it is today and a new trail will have been laid out for
> exploration that other people or the next generation will follow in
> the future."



Here's an associated URL:
   <http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/deepimpact/main/index.html>


Brian Whatcott    Altus OK    Eureka!
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