Send Your Name to a Comet

[weixing]

Hi,
In December 2004, NASA plans to launch the Deep Impact spacecraft and send it to Comet Tempel 1. Once it arrives on July 4, 2005, it will shoot a 370-kilogram (816-pound) impactor into the dirty snowball, making a crater some 7–15 stories deep. NASA is offering for the public a chance to have their names written to a CD that will be placed on the impactor, thereby leaving their mark on a comet.

Interested go to the below website:
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/sendyourname/index.html

[Airconvent]

Hi,
In December 2004, NASA plans to launch the Deep Impact spacecraft and send it to Comet Tempel 1. Once it arrives on July 4, 2005, it will shoot a 370-kilogram (816-pound) impactor into the dirty snowball, making a crater some 7–15 stories deep. NASA is offering for the public a chance to have their names written to a CD that will be placed on the impactor, thereby leaving their mark on a comet.

Interested go to the below website:
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/sendyourname/index.html

looks like Nasa is desperate for funds....of course on impact the CD would have vaporised and any ink holding your name will have cease to exist.
If they were sincere, maybe they can append comet names instead, i.e. add a second name to a comet since the first name is usually the discoverer, hence the Tempel 1 comet could be named Tempel-Richard 1...
heh heh