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Stardust NExT Targets Valentines Day Encounter with Comet Tempel 1

19 Jan , 2011 by

[/caption] After a more than decade long journey of 6 billion kilometers, hopes are high for a celestial date in space between an icy comet and a thrusting probe on Valentine’s Day 2011. The rendezvous in space between NASA’s approaching Stardust-NExT spacecraft and Comet Tempel 1 takes place nearly on the exact opposite side of […]

35 Days to STARDUST-NeXT Valentines Day Flyby of Comet Tempel 1

10 Jan , 2011 by

[/caption] 35 Days and Counting ! NASA’s re-purposed STARDUST- NeXT spacecraft is set to flyby Comet Tempel 1 at a distance of just 200 km on Valentine’s Day – February 14, 2011 at about 8:36 p.m. PST. The encounter marks the first time that a comet has been visited twice by probes from Earth. The […]

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