Nasa's Deep Impact Mission crash space probe into a comet

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Nasa's Deep Impact Mission crash space probe into a comet

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Details here.
Pretty interesting that a small space craft has the potential to create a hole the size of a stadium depending on the material of the comet...

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/s ... 50111.html
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