[meteorite-list] Hawaii Residents May Have View of Comet Collision(Deep Impa

From: tracy latimer <daistiho_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon Dec 20 14:45:29 2004
Message-ID: <BAY102-F968EF40337DA4F447843DCAA20_at_phx.gbl>

Ooohhh...time to get out the 10" 'trash-can-on-a stick' Meade. Anyone got a
link to a skymap for this?

Tracy Latimer

>From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
>To: meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com (Meteorite Mailing List)
>Subject: [meteorite-list] Hawaii Residents May Have View of Comet
>Collision(Deep Impact)
>Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 09:50:23 -0800 (PST)
>
>
>
>http://www.kpua.net/news.php?id=4030
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>Hawaii residents may have view of Comet collision
>Associated Press
>December 20, 2004
>
>BALTIMORE (AP) _ Hawaii residents may see one of the biggest Fourth of
>July fireworks ever next year.
>
>A University of Maryland spacecraft is to be launched by NASA in January
>and is to crash on Independence day into the comet Tempel-One.
>
>Although the two are to collide near the orbit of Mars, the collision
>may be visible with the naked eye in California, Australia and Hawaii.
>
>Researchers hope the collision will excavate a stadium-sized hole in the
>comet and reveal scientific secrets hidden in the comet since it was
>created million of years ago.
>
>Astronomers are calling it celesial archaelogy.
>
>The spacecraft is actually two vessels. One, called the impactor, has a
>camera and will send back pictures until it's destroyed. Meanwhile, a
>companion spacecraft will record the collision.
>
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