At those speeds, impactor had to be in the right place at the right time to intercept the speeding snowball.
"It's a bullet trying to hit a second bullet with the third bullet," Rick Grammier, Deep Impact project manager at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said in June.
And Deep Impact filmed the brilliant explosion and sent the pictures home.
Amazing! Spectacular! Beautiful!
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Now that's the kinda stuff NASA should be doing. Make us quake in awe, excitement, anticipation, etc.
Maybe we can send clones (or perhaps Ted Kennedy -- he's pickled enough for suspended animation) to Mars or Titan!
Hopefully there wasn't any damage to the "Take the Cult Home" spaceship following this comet...
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