NASA craft readies for Valentine comet encounter
A NASA spacecraft is ready to get up close and personal with its comet sweetheart.
Space Exploration
Feb 14, 2011
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News tagged with comet impact
Five things about NASA's Valentine's day comet
Here are five facts you should know about NASA's Stardust-NExT spacecraft as it prepares for a Valentine's "date" with comet Tempel 1. Feel free to sing along!
Space Exploration
Feb 11, 2011
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Stardust celebrates twelve years with rocket burn
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Stardust spacecraft marked its 12th anniversary in space on Monday, Feb. 7, with a rocket burn to further refine its path toward a Feb. 14 date with a comet.
Space Exploration
Feb 9, 2011
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Images: New insights revealed into comet features with EPOXI flyby
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's EPOXI mission spacecraft successfully flew past comet Hartley 2 at 7 a.m. PDT (10 a.m. EDT) Thursday, Nov. 4. Scientists say initial images from the flyby provide new information about the comet's ...
Space Exploration
Nov 5, 2010
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NASA spacecraft set to rendezvous with comet
Five years after a NASA spacecraft bombarded a comet, it will visit another one Thursday. This time, there won't be celestial fireworks.
Space Exploration
Nov 4, 2010
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Cometary poison gas geyser heralds surprises
As NASA's Deep Impact (EPOXI) probe approaches Comet Hartley 2 for a close encounter on Nov. 4th, mission scientists are certain of only one thing:
Space Exploration
Nov 3, 2010
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Scientists on the look-out for a 'Hartley-id' Meteor Shower
This month, Comet Hartley 2 has put on a good show for backyard astronomers. The comet's vivid green atmosphere and auburn tail of dust look great through small telescopes, and NASA's Deep Impact/EPOXI probe is about to return ...
Space Exploration
Oct 27, 2010
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Five things about NASA's EPOXI mission
(PhysOrg.com) -- Here are five quick facts about the EPOXI mission, scheduled to fly by comet Hartley 2 on Nov. 4, 2010.
Space Exploration
Oct 25, 2010
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WISE captures key image of comet mission's destination
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, caught a glimpse of the comet that the agency's EPOXI mission will visit in November. The WISE observation will help the EPOXI team put together a large-scale picture of ...
Space Exploration
Oct 6, 2010
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Hubble probes comet 103P/Hartley 2 in preparation for DIXI/EPOXI flyby
(PhysOrg.com) -- Hubble Space Telescope observations of comet 103P/Hartley 2, taken on September 25, are helping in the planning for a November 4 flyby of the comet by the Deep Impact eXtended Investigation (DIXI) on NASA's ...
Space Exploration
Oct 6, 2010
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