Deep Impact does just that...
We successfully reached out and touched a comet... at 28,000 miles per hour.
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This image will be remembered as one of the great images of the century<br><br>Pity most of the live earth feeds like kitt peak couldn't keep up with the internet traffic.<br><br>most of new zealand was clouded out for this very important event.<br><br>Phil Barker
were any amateur astronomers able to detect brightness changes due to impact? I didn't have adequate star charts, so could not even locate the comet with cetainty.
