Deep Impact
(Discovery 8)
(mission to create and observe an impact with a comet)
Deep Impact was a 2005 NASA mission to study the
comet Tempel 1 (aka 9P/Tempel), by sending an impactor to
crash into it, then observing the results.
After successful completion of this mission, a follow-on mission
for the spacecraft was carried out, which was termed EPOXI (for
Extrasolar Planet Observation and Deep Impact Extended Investigation)
which continued until 2013.
(mission,spacecraft,comets,NASA,past)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Impact_(spacecraft)
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/deep-impact-epoxi/in-depth/
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/deep-impact
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=2005-001A
https://deepimpact.astro.umd.edu/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005HiA....13..746A/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005LPIBu.103....2S/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006LPI....37.1165M/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008ApJ...673L.199Y/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009IAUS..253..301C/abstract
Referenced by page:
EPOXI
Index