Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Studying the Origins of the Solar System

ARTIST'S RENDERING BY PAT RAWLINGS / NASA (2005)

At events on Oahu, Maui and the Big Island, the public joined astronomers worldwide in observing the unique encounter between Comet Tempel 1 and an impactor from the Deep Impact spacecraft as part of a historic experiment to study the origins of the solar system.
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