Deep Impact

spacebarfie · Post by **spacebarfie** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 6:19 pm

Deep Impact is a spacecaft that will collide with the comet Tempel 1 on July 4th. The impact with be so bright that you can see it using binoculars.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/06/2 ... index.html

That would be so cool if at space camp they let us see it thought the telescope there.

psych0rabbit · Post by **psych0rabbit** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 6:26 pm

That's really cool!

CastAway · Post by **CastAway** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 9:56 am

Ooh! I gotta remember to look this one up... it sounds so cool!

Space Nerd · Post by **Space Nerd** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 12:40 am

Talk about fireworks...

spacecampaddict28 · Post by **spacecampaddict28** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 11:25 am

lol, like the ghetto bottle rockets at your house, lyn?

Space Nerd · Post by **Space Nerd** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 9:15 pm

Somehow i think it would be a little bit more spectacular.... with report.

psych0rabbit · Post by **psych0rabbit** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 2:35 pm

can anyone tell me where in the sky you're going to be able to see the collision?

Space Nerd · Post by **Space Nerd** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 7:14 pm

Yeah i need to figure that out too. Nothing cool ever happens where you can see it over lower michigan.

Edit: If i figured this correctly it should be impacting at about 2 am EST. I still dont know where though.

Edit again: Ok its going to be near Spica which is the bright star in Virgo so find that star and you should be good to go... providing it hits lol.

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 7:42 pm

From what i understand it will onlybe visible in the southwest US but NASA tv is covering it live.

CastAway · Post by **CastAway** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 9:41 pm

I heard it's actually out of the horizon from the US... stupid NASA! I'll watch some NASA TV to see about that, though.

coffeediver · Post by **coffeediver** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 10:15 pm

Draw a line from Chicago down to Atlanta, if you're west of it, you have a good chance. East, you have none.

CastAway · Post by **CastAway** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 10:41 pm

I'm in Atlanta... haha. I'll try... good luck to me.

Only 2 hours 10 minutes to go!

CastAway · Post by **CastAway** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 1:16 am

Did anyone see it? My friend said she saw one flash that seemed to be like a jet, but, you know, once I guess... dunno if she saw it or not. I didn't.

But, I did watch NASA TV... SUCCESS! YAY!

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 1:18 am

saw it on nasa tv the images are incredible