[meteorite-list] 'Hitchhiker' EPOXI: Next Stop, Comet Hartley 2

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:13:38 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <201006291813.o5TIDc4R026417_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-216

'Hitchhiker' EPOXI: Next Stop, Comet Hartley 2
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
June 28, 2010

NASA's Deep Impact/EPOXI spacecraft flew past Earth Sunday (June 27) at
approximately 3:03 p.m. Pacific time (6:03 p.m. Eastern time), as
planned. The spacecraft is now on its way to its appointment with comet
Hartley 2 this fall. The members of the EPOXI team at NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., are currently working with
data returned from the flyby to refine the spacecraft trajectory estimates.

EPOXI is an extended mission of the Deep Impact spacecraft. Its name is
derived from its two tasked science investigations -- the Extrasolar
Planet Observation and Characterization (EPOCh) and the Deep Impact
Extended Investigation (DIXI). On Nov. 4, 2010, the mission will fly by
Hartley 2 using all three of the spacecraft's instruments (two
telescopes with digital imagers and an infrared spectrometer).

The University of Maryland, College Park, is the principal investigator
institution. JPL manages EPOXI for NASA's Science Mission Directorate,
Washington. The spacecraft was built for NASA by Ball Aerospace &
Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo.

For information about EPOXI, visit http://www.nasa.gov/epoxi or
http://epoxi.umd.edu/.

Priscilla Amador / Jia-Rui Cook 818-354-1357 / 354-0850
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
priscilla.r.amador at jpl.nasa.gov / jia-rui.c.cook at jpl.nasa.gov

2010-216
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