25 Nov
2004
25 Nov
'04
1:48 p.m.
diveboss@xmission.com wrote:
Today, FOX news has been running the story about the upcoming December 30th launch of the 'Deep impact' spacecraft which will meet and attempt to dismantle a comet called 'Comet Tempel 1" on or about July 4th. They were reporting that the event may be visible to the naked eye.
Unfortunately they slipped the launch at least a week (so much for accuracy in media at Fox) to no earlier than 8 January. I hope that does not slip the impact as it would be fun to talk about cosmic fireworks on the 4th of July. And I suppose it would be visible to the naked eye...if one were riding the impactor (visions of Dr. Strangelove). Patrick :-)