Deep Impact Tonight

Elspode • Jul 4, 2005 12:14 am
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.
BigV • Jul 4, 2005 12:23 am
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.
Elspode • Jul 4, 2005 12:26 am
What a great idea for an impact soundtrack, though.

IM?
BigV • Jul 4, 2005 12:40 am
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.
BigV • Jul 4, 2005 2:45 am
post impact briefing in 75 minutes.

check out www.nasa.gov/deepimpact
Elspode • Jul 4, 2005 11:33 pm
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
Elspode • Jul 5, 2005 12:07 am
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
plthijinx • Jul 5, 2005 7:05 pm
I totally forgot this was happening, thanks for the links els!
Troubleshooter • Jul 5, 2005 11:52 pm
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/R/RUSSIA_COMET_CASE?SITE=1010WINS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=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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