Tempel 1
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Tempel 1 is a Jupiter-family comet discovered by Wilhelm Tempel in 1867. It completes an orbit of the Sun every 5.6 years. Tempel 1 was the target of the Deep Impact space mission, which photographed
Composite of images of nucleus obtained by the Deep Impact mission
Tempel 1 in X-ray light by Chandra
The head-on collision of comet 9P/Tempel and the Deep Impact impactor
Before and after comparison images from Deep Impact and Stardust, showing the crater formed by Deep Impact on the right hand image.
103P/Hartley
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Comet Hartley 2, designated 103P/Hartley by the Minor Planet Center, is a small periodic comet with an orbital period of 6.48 years. It was discovered by Malcolm Hartley in 1986 at the Schmidt Telesco
Tempel 1
…1's nucleus. Exploration Deep Impact mission Animation of Deep Impact's trajectory from 12 January 2005 to 8 August 2013 Deep Impact 1 Tempel 1 Earth 103P/Hartley The head-on collision of comet 9P/Tempel and the Deep Impact impactor On 4 July 2005 at 05:52 UTC (01:52 EDT), Tempel 1 was deliberately struck by one…
Comet 103P/Hartley closeup, from EPOXI.
103P with Double Cluster in Perseus 9 October 2010.
Comet Hartley 2 on 2 November 2010 from a distance of 2.3 million kilometers, as photographed by the Deep Impact spacecraft.
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