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Deep Impact is a probe that will crash into comet Tempel 1 in 2005. Mission planners expect the resulting crater will be about 90m wide and 30m deep (the comet itself is about 3km, or 1.9 miles around). A spacecraft will be stationed 300 miles away and will "observe the impact, the ejected material blasted from the crater, and the structure and composition of the crater's interior." Unlike most space missions, people on the ground should actually be able to see the impact will be visible from Earth, even with fairly small telescopes! From This is True for 5 October 2003 Suggestions for further reading:
 by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells Amazon Price: Customer Review: An extremely verbose book on the social and political issues between the Boer War and World War I in England with a solution to the world's problem via the green mist left by Earth passing through a comet's tail. I truly enjoyed the movie renderings ...  by H. P. Lovecraft Amazon Price: Customer Review: Excellent collection of Lovecraft's work. This has to be one of the most complete collections I've found and it fantastically formatted for the kindle. It has a couple spelling errors around, but it is a solid product and by far the most complete o...  by Dinah L. Moche Amazon Price: $13.57 Customer Review: This allows the reader to know a bit more about Astronomy by having questions after each chapter, which is nice.  by Herbert George Wells Amazon Price: Customer Review: This is the best book of a collection of H.G. Wells that I've found! It lets you go straight to the book and to what chapter you want to start on right away. You don't have to go through alot of books's own chapters to get to the book that you want l...  by H. G. Wells Amazon Price: Customer Review: I really enjoyed several of the major Wells stories as Time Machine and war of the worlds. Most I read because I saw the movie first. Now is my opportunity to read the less popularized works. For the price and availability I cannot imaging anyone wi... Newsfeed display by CaRP |
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