Comet Close Encounter Encourages Comparison

Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 18:20 in Astronomy & Space

NASA's Stardust spacecraft whizzed within 181 km of comet Tempel 1 on February 15th 2011, allowing scientists to see changes in the comet's nucleus since it was visited by NASA's Deep Impact mission in July of 2005.

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