Cometary rendezvous set for Valentine's Day
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the beginning, both couples seemed meant for each other.
Space Exploration
Feb 8, 2011
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NASA's Stardust Burns for Comet, Less Than a Year Away
Just three days shy of one year before its planned flyby of comet Tempel 1, NASA's Stardust spacecraft has successfully performed a maneuver to adjust the time of its encounter by eight hours and 20 minutes. The delay maximizes ...
Space Exploration
Feb 18, 2010
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Eight days left in comet flyby countdown
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's EPOXI mission continues to close in on its target, comet Hartley 2, at a rate of 12.5 kilometers (7.8 miles) per second. On Nov. 4 at about 10:01 a.m. EDT (7:01 a.m. PDT) the spacecraft will make its ...
Space Exploration
Oct 27, 2010
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Rosetta comet comes alive
A spacecraft from Earth is about to do something no spacecraft has ever done before: orbit a comet and land on its surface.
Space Exploration
Jun 4, 2014
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Team attempts to restore communications with Deep Impact spacecraft
Ground controllers have been unable to communicate with NASA's long-lived Deep Impact spacecraft. Last communication with the spacecraft was on Aug. 8, 2013. Deep Impact mission controllers will continue to uplink commands ...
Space Exploration
Sep 11, 2013
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Deep Impact spacecraft completes rocket burn
(Phys.org)—NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft completed a firing of its onboard rocket motors earlier today. The maneuver began at 1 p.m. PDT (4 p.m. EDT), lasted 71 seconds, and changed its velocity by 4.5 mph (2 meters per ...
Space Exploration
Oct 5, 2012
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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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Looking back at the Jupiter crash 20 years later
(Phys.org) —Twenty years ago, human and robotic eyes observed the first recorded impact between cosmic bodies in the solar system, as fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 slammed into the atmosphere of Jupiter.
Space Exploration
Jul 16, 2014
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Video: Flight of the comet
(PhysOrg.com) -- This video clip was compiled from images taken by NASA's EPOXI mission spacecraft during its flyby of comet Hartley 2 on Nov. 4.
Space Exploration
Nov 8, 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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