[meteorite-list] Deep News - Issue #11, May 2004

[Ron Baalke]

http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/newsletter/index.html

Deep News
Newsletter for the Deep Impact mission
Issue 11  May 2004  

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Welcome to Deep News - the official newsletter for the Deep Impact 
mission to make a deep crater in a comet. The dual spacecraft for 
the mission have moved into environmental testing which are really 
several different kinds of tests. These tests help assure that the 
spacecraft are ready to launch this December from Cape Canaveral. To 
learn more about the Deep Impact mission, visit our official web 
sites at:
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov
http://deepimpact.umd.edu


WHERE IS COMET TEMPEL 1 NOW?
Take a look and see where Tempel 1 is now and use the same display 
to figure out where it will be on any date you choose. Follow Tempel 
1 to encounter!
http://deepimpact.astro.umd.edu/amateur/where_is.shtml


QUESTION FROM YOU - HEY, WHAT'S WITH THE SHOES IN THE CLEAN ROOM?
Good question. You wanted to know why people could work in the clean 
room next to the spacecraft without masks on their faces and paper 
boots on their feet. Monte Henderson gives us a very interesting 
answer.
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/faq2.html#q8 


UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL - MEET MIKE BELTON If you like to golf, why 
would you retire and then start your own company for space 
exploration? Deep Impact deputy PI tells us the answer as we get to 
know him better.
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/bio-mbelton.html 


WHO IS MAKING A DEEP IMPACT?
How many pennies would you have to gather to match the weight of the 
copper in our impactor? Deep Impact Solar System Educator Dee 
McClellan and her class are going to find out. Read on to see what 
they will do with all those pennies once they have them.
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/community/pennies.html 


CAN YOU ANSWER THIS? GAME #5
Have you played games 1 - 4? If you haven't, try them first at:
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/disczone/questions-archive.html 

Then move on to this month's game and see how you do.
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/disczone/questions200405.html 


DID YOU SEE OUR PAST DEEP NEWS ISSUES?
Visit http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/newsletter/archive.html to 
catch up on exciting past news from the Deep Impact mission.

The Deep Impact mission is a partnership among the University of 
Maryland (UMD), the California Institute of Technology's Jet 
Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Ball Aerospace and Technology Corp 
(BATC). Deep Impact is a NASA Discovery mission, eighth in a series 
of low-cost, highly focused space science investigations. See 
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov or our mirror site at 
http://deepimpact.umd.edu