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Hi All
Seems to be a lot of confusion and some curly questions still over the upcoming 'Deep Impact' mission, and near Earth objects in general - and rightly so, this is an unusual event to say the least! That's why we got the best brains onto it to untangle the mysteries and provide some speculative answers for you.
If you check out the current edition of SKY & SPACE Magazine you'll find not one, but 3 separate articles dealing with all this. On Page 36 Dr, Duncan Steel provides an in-depth analysis of the whole program and what could develop from it. (great pics too!) Duncan works in Canberra for the Aust. section of Ball Arerospace who manufactured the Deep Impact spacecraft for NASA. In a following article he looks at NEO's.
On page 84 you'll find a large 5 page article giving you all the facts on comets based on ASA material written for us by none other than Dr. Nick Lomb, S&S contributing editor and curator of the Sydney Observatory and Martin George from the Launceston Planetarium & president of the International Planetarium Society. Again, the pics are "out of this world".
Don't forget to watch all this live on the internet OK?
All the best.
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