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9P/Tempel 1 |
| Discovery. Historical Highlights. |
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Deep Impact: Home Page |
| Deep Impact spacecraft website at NASA JPL. Scheduled for July 2005, Deep Impact spacecraft will arrive at Comet Tempel 1 and become the first mission to impact the surface of a comet. |
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Deep Impact: Science: Tempel 1 |
| Description of Tempel 1 comet at the website of the University of Maryland. |
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9P/Tempel 1 (2005) |
| Comet Tempel 1 web page by Seiichi Yoshida. Orbital elements, finding charts and a magnitudes graph are provided. |
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Comet 9P/Tempel 1 |
| The Asteroid/Comet Connection's comet Tempel 1 web page. |
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Deep Impact: Small Telescope Science Program (STSP) |
| The Small Telescope Science Program (STSP) is a collaborative effort among advanced observers, private observatories, and professional astronomers spread around the world to gather ground-based optical data on comet 9P/Tempel 1, the target of the Deep Impact Mission. |
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Periodic Comet 9P/Tempel 1 CCD Images |
| Comet Tempel 1 images by Crni Vrh Observatory in Slovenia. |
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APOD: 2005 May 12 - Stars, Galaxies, and Comet Tempel 1 |
| Faint comet Tempel 1 sports a fuzzy blue-tinted tail, just right of center in this lovely field of stars. |
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APOD: 2005 July 5 - Thirteen Seconds After Impact |
| Fireworks came early on July 4th when, at 1:52am EDT, the Deep Impact spacecraft's probe smashed into the surface of Comet Tempel 1's nucleus at ten kilometers per second. |
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Deep Impact Captured by Gemini |
| Gemini Observatory's participation in observation of the collision of NASA's Deep Impact probe with Comet 9P/Tempel 1. |
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Hubble Captures Deep Impact's Collision with Comet |
| Hubble Space Telescope images of the collision between an 820-pound projectile released by the Deep Impact spacecraft and comet 9P/Tempel 1. |
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Tempel 1 is weak X-ray source, XMM-Newton confirms |
| Report on data acquired on 4 July 2005 by ESA's XMM-Newton science satellite. |
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ESO Very Large Telescopes study comet after impact |
| Through the night of 4 July 2005, all European Southern Observatory (ESO) telescopes observed the effects of the impact on Comet 9P/Tempel 1. |
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Evidence For More Dust Than Ice In Comets - ESA press release |
| Observations of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 made by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft after the Deep Impact collision suggest that comets are 'icy dirtballs', rather than 'dirty snowballs' as previously believed. |
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Comet 9P/Tempel 1 - Explore the Cosmos | The Planetary Society |
| What Deep Impact Learned About Tempel 1. A web page by the Planetary Society. |
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Tempel 1, Comet 9P/ |
| Comet Tempel 1 description from the Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy, and Spaceflight by David Darling. |
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9P/Tempel |
| Information on comet Tempel 1 by Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. |
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