A Second Comet to Visit, With a Look-but-Don’t-Touch Mission
Monday, November 1, 2010 - 18:40
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Traveling 27,000 miles per hour, the spacecraft from the Deep Impact mission will come within 435 miles of Comet Hartley 2 on Thursday.
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