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NASA Space Place: What is a comet? submitted by Thomas Frawley on
12/05/2006
Comets are beautiful, mysterious objects only rarely seen in our night skies. A comet often appears as a fuzzy ball with a long, white tail - sometimes with a second blue tail visible.
But what are they? What’s at the heart of a comet? That’s what the Deep Impact space mission set out to learn by crashing its “smart impactor” into the nucleus of Comet Tempel 1 on July 4, 2005.
Deep Impact’s camera and many other orbiting and ground-based telescopes observed and studied the material that was blasted out of the resulting crater.
Now scientists all over the world have had time to look at the data and gain a better understanding of these icy visitors from the outer solar system.
Visit The Space Place at
http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/deepimpact
More info at this external link:http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/deepimpact.
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