Feb 24, 2011 . As Stardust-Next was racing past Comet Tempel at 9.8 km/sec, or 24000 MPH, it encountered a hail of bullet like particles akin to a warplane .

Feb 10, 2011 . "For the first time, we'll see the same comet before and after its closest approach to the sun," explains Joe Veverka, .

Jan 18, 2011 . Valentine's Day rendezvous NASA's Stardust spacecraft will pass within 124 miles of comet Temple 1, which has completed an orbit of the sun .

Jul 4, 2005 . A probe from the US Deep Impact spacecraft crashes into a comet to reveal secrets about the Solar System.

Comet 9P/Tempel 1 was discovered on April 3, 1867 by Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel of Marseilles France while visually searching for comets.

Jun 3, 2005 . NASA's Deep Impact mission will explore the interior Comet Tempel 1 by creating a crater with an 'impactor' probe. But the nature of Tempel .

Feb 16, 2011 . In 2005 NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft launched an impactor into Comet Tempel 1 in an effort to study its composition. .

NASA's Stardust-NExT mission took this image of comet Tempel 1 at 8:39 p.m .

Feb 14, 2011 . Where will you be tomorrow morning at 0437 GMT? If you're a Nasa engineer odds are you'll be glued to your many monitors, .

Nov 16, 2010 . Astronomers with Small Telescopes Track Tempel 1. Small .

Feb 15, 2011 . After a delayed start to the Valentines Day proceeds, the first photos of comet Tempel 1 were received by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory .

Jan 27, 2011 . The first image of comet Tempel 1 taken by NASA's Stardust spacecraft is a composite made from observations on Jan. 18 and 19, 2011. .

Feb 15, 2011 . NASA's Stardust-NExT spacecraft took these images of comet Tempel 1 during the Valentine's Day close encounter to see how the icy body has .

Jul 13, 2005 . This spectacular image of comet Tempel 1 was taken 67 seconds after it obliterated Deep Impact's impactor spacecraft. The image was taken by .

This false-color image shows comet Tempel 1 as seen by the Chandra X-ray Observatory on June 30, 2005. The comet was bright and condensed. .

Jul 5, 2005 . Comet Tempel 1 just before impact (stack and shift of 5 frames x 50 seconds each ). Both this and the one to the right are to the same scale. .

Feb 16, 2011 . No comet has ever been visited twice before. Therefore, the unprecedented pass of the Stardust-NeXT spacecraft near Comet Tempel 1 earlier .

Feb 14, 2011 . Stardust, the veteran NASA spacecraft, is hurtling towards its Valentine's Day comet flyby at around 24000 mph, destination Tempel-1.

The comet was last seen on July 10. This apparition proved that the single image found in 1967 was indeed 9P/Tempel 1. The comet has been recovered at every .

Feb 15, 2011 . Low on fuel but right on the money, NASA's Stardust spacecraft visited its second comet earlier today. Scientists are eager to see the .

Feb 16, 2011 . In the first NASA mission to visit a comet twice, close-ups of Tempel 1 show that a 2005 smashup left a scar.

Mar 25, 2011 . Stardust-NExT-short for New Exploration of Comet Tempel 1 .

Thanks to the Deep Impact mission, Tempel 1 is now one of the two best-studied comets in the solar system. The other one is Halley's comet, .

Feb 15, 2011 . Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have begun receiving the first of 72 anticipated images of comet Tempel 1 taken by .

Feb 16, 2011 . Denver CO (SPX) Feb 16, 2011 - NASA's Stardust-NExT spacecraft made a Valentine's Day deep-space rendezvous with an object it had been .

May 12, 2005 . Explanation: Faint comet Tempel 1 sports a fuzzy blue .

Feb 14, 2011 . Officials at the American space agency announce that the Stardust-NExT mission has finally caught up with its target, comet 9P/Tempel 1. .

Twelve years after launch and seven years after it collected dust from comet Wild 2, NASA's Stardust probe streaked past comet Tempel 1 late Monday, .

When Deep Impact smashed into comet Tempel 1 on July 4, 2005, . Deep Impact is headed for comet Tempel 1 and a new interactive Flash feature details the .

Jan 22, 2009 . Comet 9P/Tempel 1 was discovered on April 3, 1867 by Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel . In 1881, comet Tempel 1 passed 0.55 AU from Jupiter. .

Feb 15, 2011 . NASA's Stardust-NExT comet chaser successfully zoomed by Comet Temple 1 exactly as planned a short while ago at 11:37 p.m. EST on Feb. 14.

Jul 15, 2005 . We have long suggested that, after Deep Impact, scientists would be scratching their heads over the lack of subsurface water—the last hope .

Feb 15, 2011 . PASADENA, Calif. — Nearly six years after an 800-pound copper bullet excavated a crater on a comet, a NASA spacecraft revisiting the site .

Feb 16, 2011 . On Valentine's Day, NASA's Stardust spacecraft paid a visit to Comet Tempel-1, which at the moment might be the most interesting ball of .

Feb 15, 2011 . Stardust-NExT flirts with comet Tempel 1. NASA's Stardust-NExT mission has completed its Valentine's Day dance with comet Tempel 1. .

Jul 14, 2005 . eso0523 - Comet Tempel 1 Went Back to Sleep. Ten days after part of the Deep Impact spacecraft plunged onto Comet Tempel 1 with the aim to .

Feb 15, 2011 . Stardust-NExT sped to within 112 miles of the comet Monday at 11:39 p.m. EST. During the flyby, it snapped 72 new images of comet Tempel-1.

Feb 15, 2011 . An hour after its closest approach with the periodic comet Tempel 1 on Valentine's Day night at about 8.41 p.m., NASA's Stardust spacecraft .

Feb 28, 2011 . Stardust-NExT Encounters Comet Tempel 1. Airdate: Monday .

Feb 10, 2011 . The icy comet Tempel 1 has been the target of two NASA spacecraft. Here's a close look at the comet from those missions.

Detail of crater-like features on Comet Tempel 1 in image taken by Deep Impact's . Tempel 1 is not a bright comet; its brightest apparent magnitude since .

Feb 27, 2011 . On February 14th, NASA's Stardust probe made its second visit to the comet Tempel 1 allowing them to compare data from the first visit and .

Feb 15, 2011 . Last night, a NASA spacecraft played interstellar paparazzi. Stardust snapped 72 pictures as it flew by a six kilometer comet.

Feb 17, 2011 . Four views of comet Tempel 1. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell . Tempel 1 was first visited by the Deep Impact mission in 2005, .

Feb 15, 2011 . Images of comet Tempel 1 taken by the Stardust spacecraft during its Monday night close encounter suggest that the comet's surface is much .

Feb 15, 2011 . Today the Stardust probe imaged comet Tempel 1 and got a clean shot of the surface where a NASA impactor hit 5½ Earth years ago.

Feb 15, 2011 . Photos of Tempel 1 will probably be the Stardust spacecraft's last as it is running low on fuel.

Jul 2, 2005 . This set of images of Comet Tempel-1 was taken as the impactor on NASA's Deep Mission crashed into the comet. Using the Caltech 200-inch .

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