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A July 4 of Astronomical Proportions
By Blaine P. Friedlander Jr.
On this Fourth of July, the fireworks are frozen. At 1:52 a.m. Eastern time July 4, the 40-cubic-inch impact device from the spacecraft Deep Impact will ram into Comet Tempel 1 -- a comet half the size of Manhattan traveling at ultrahigh speed. From that controlled crash, the Deep Impact craft will...
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