Space probe

Deep Impact

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Fired an impactor into comet Tempel 1 in 2005, then flew on past comet Hartley 2; contact was lost in 2013.

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The flight

  1. January 12, 2005

    Launch

  2. December 31, 2007

    Flies past Earth, 21,970 km away

  3. December 29, 2008

    Flies past Earth, 49,827 km away

  4. June 29, 2009

    Flies past Earth, 1,336,722 km away

  5. December 28, 2009

    Flies past Earth, 1,325,490 km away

  6. June 27, 2010

    Flies past Earth, 36,859 km away

  7. January 9, 2020

    JPL’s track of it ends

From the trajectory NASA JPL Horizons publishes for it.

Deep Impact (spacecraft)

NASA space probe launched in 2005

Deep Impact was a NASA space probe launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on January 12, 2005. It was designed to study the interior composition of the comet Tempel 1 (9P/Tempel), by releasing an impactor into the comet. At 05:52 UTC on July 4, 2005, the Impactor successfully collided with the comet's nucleus. The impact excavated debris from the interior of the nucleus, forming an impact crater.

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