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As NASA crashes a space-probe into a comet, blasting a crater the size of Wembley stadium, the award-winning Stardate will be broadcasting from mission headquarters bringing the latest pictures and... reactions from the project's scientists to the British public. -- Comet Impact: Stardate will be on location at the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab in Los Angeles, as the NASA space mission Deep Impact reaches its climax. -- After a voyage lasting 173 days and 431 million kilometres (268 million miles), NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft will get up-close and personal with comet Tempel 1 on 4 July-American Independence Day. -- The hyper-speed impact between the space-borne iceberg and the copper impactor (which is roughly the size of a washing machine) will be the first time anyone has attempted to bring together a comet and a spacecraft. The collision is scheduled for 6.52am BST, and it will be observed by the Deep Impact mother-ship, and ground and space-based observatories. -- In the second of two programmes hosted by Dr Brian Cox and Dr Lucie Green, Stardate reviews the progress of this important astronomical event.
As NASA crashes a space-probe into a comet, blasting a crater the size of Wembley stadium, the award-winning Stardate will be broadcasting from mission headquarters bringing the latest pictures and... reactions from the project's scientists to the British public. -- Comet Impact: Stardate will be on location at the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab in Los Angeles, as the NASA space mission Deep Impact reaches its climax. -- After a voyage lasting 173 days and 431 million kilometres (268 million miles), NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft will get up-close and personal with comet Tempel 1 on 4 July-American Independence Day. -- The hyper-speed impact between the space-borne iceberg and the copper impactor (which is roughly the size of a washing machine) will be the first time anyone has attempted to bring together a comet and a spacecraft. The collision is scheduled for 6.52am BST, and it will be observed by the Deep Impact mother-ship, and ground and space-based observatories. -- In the second of two programmes hosted by Dr Brian Cox and Dr Lucie Green, Stardate reviews the progress of this important astronomical event.
| First transmission date: | 04-07-2005 |
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| Published: | 2005 |
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| Duration: | 00:29:00 |
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| Producer: | Stephen Haggard |
| Contributors: | Brian Cox; Lucie Green; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; W.M. Keck Observatory |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | Website: http://www.open2.net/astronomy/ |
| Subject terms: | Astronomy; Comets |
| Master spool number: | BOU11257 |
| Production number: | JOUA394X |
| Videofinder number: | 7121 |
| Available to public: | no |
