Deep Impact Tonight
 

Excellent coverage for broadband users who are interested in tonight's planned collision between Deep Impact's copper-clad impactor and comet Tempel 1.

You can view NASA TV in either Windows Media Player or Real Player in case you don't get it on cable...

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

About an hour and 35 minutes until impact.

Outstanding. Thanks for the tip. I missed Live8 but this'll do. It is considerably beyond the Dark Side of the Moon. It kinda makes you Wish You Where (t)Here.

What a great idea for an impact soundtrack, though.

IM?

I have the broadband NASA TV on and the cable tv version on. Unsurprisingly, they are the same. Except, the online version is delayed by 20 seconds.

post impact briefing in 75 minutes.

check out www.nasa.gov/deepimpact

Absolutely mind-bogglingly cool series of pics leading to impact from the POV of the impactor.

http://www.nasa.gov/mov/121530main_its_approach_x4.mov

Also mind-bogglingly cool is this series of shots from the POV of the flyby craft showing the impact's effect.

http://www.nasa.gov/mov/121527main_MRI_impact.mov

I totally forgot this was happening, thanks for the links els!

Astrologer Sues NASA Over Comet Mission
 

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...TIME=2005-07-0

MOSCOW (AP) -- NASA's mission that sent a space probe smashing into a comet raised more than cosmic dust - it also brought a lawsuit from a Russian astrologer.

Marina Bai has sued the U.S. space agency, claiming the Deep Impact probe that punched a crater into the comet Tempel 1 late Sunday "ruins the natural balance of forces in the universe," the newspaper Izvestia reported Tuesday. A Moscow court has postponed hearings on the case until late July, the paper said.

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