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| | El Dorado County Library's What's Hot on the Internet for the Week of July 11th, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Deep Impact, a NASA Discovery Mission, is the first space mission to probe beneath the surface of a comet and reveal the secrets of its interior... |
 | | On July 4, 2005, the Deep Impact spacecraft arrives at Comet Tempel 1 to impact it with a 370-kg (~820-lbs) mass. |
 | | On impact, the crater produced is expected to range in size from that of a house to that of a football stadium, and two to fourteen stories deep." After this, the orbiting spacecraft will collect, analyze and photograph the released material and report its findings back to earth. |
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