The little sucker HIT it~
!!!!!WOW> On schedule, 83 million miles away.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8458183/
The Deep Impact mission’s “Impactor” probe hit the lower end of the Comet Tempel 1 as scheduled, just before 11 p.m. PT Sunday (2 a.m. ET Monday), marking the first time a spacecraft has ever touched the surface of a comet. The 820-pound (373-kilogram), copper-sheathed Impactor had departed from its “Flyby” mothership a day earlier.
Impactor’s imaging system sent back pictures of the pickle-shaped comet right down to the final seconds of its existence, while Flyby watched the whole thing from a front-row seat 5,000 miles (8,000 kilometers) away. The blast took place 83 million miles (133 million kilometers) from Earth.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8458183/
The Deep Impact mission’s “Impactor” probe hit the lower end of the Comet Tempel 1 as scheduled, just before 11 p.m. PT Sunday (2 a.m. ET Monday), marking the first time a spacecraft has ever touched the surface of a comet. The 820-pound (373-kilogram), copper-sheathed Impactor had departed from its “Flyby” mothership a day earlier.
Impactor’s imaging system sent back pictures of the pickle-shaped comet right down to the final seconds of its existence, while Flyby watched the whole thing from a front-row seat 5,000 miles (8,000 kilometers) away. The blast took place 83 million miles (133 million kilometers) from Earth.