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    Tempel 1 (official designation: 9P/Tempel) is a periodic Jupiter-family comet discovered by Wilhelm Tempel in 1867. It completes an orbit of the Sun every...
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    codenamed NExT, culminated in February 2011 with Stardust intercepting Comet Tempel 1, a small Solar System body previously visited by Deep Impact in 2005. Stardust...
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    Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel (4 December 1821 – 16 March 1889), normally known as Wilhelm Tempel, was a German astronomer who worked in Marseille until...
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    uncrewed probes such as NASA's Deep Impact, which blasted a crater on Comet Tempel 1 to study its interior, and the European Space Agency's Rosetta, which became...
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    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...
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    to fly by comet Tempel 1 in 2011 and observe changes since the Deep Impact mission visited it in July 2005. Later in 2005, Tempel 1 made its closest...
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    55P/Tempel–Tuttle (commonly known as Comet Tempel–Tuttle) is a retrograde periodic comet with an orbital period of 33 years. It fits the classical definition...
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    coma. Comets already visited are: Halley's Comet 26P/Grigg-Skjellerup Tempel 1 (also hit with impactor) 19P/Borrelly 81P/Wild 103P/Hartley C/2013 A1 (Siding...
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  • Comet Tempel may mean: Either of these numbered periodic comets: 9P/Tempel, Comet Tempel 1 (a.k.a. 9P/1867 G1, 1867 II, 9P/1873 G1, 1873 I, 1873a, 1879...
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  • Ra Tempel was a West German krautrock group led by guitarist Manuel Göttsching that was active from 1970 to 1976. Their debut album Ash Ra Tempel was...
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    Deep Impact mission had its own purpose-built impactor which hit Comet 9P/Tempel 1. Terminal approaches to gas giants which resulted in the destruction of...
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    m2V2. Conservation of energy for an elastic collision gives (1/2)m1|u1|2 = (1/2)m1|V1|2 + (1/2)m2|V2|2. Now consider the case m1 = m2: we obtain u1 = V1...
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    several smaller bodies including 433 Eros (2001), 25143 Itokawa (2005), Tempel 1 (2005), 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (2014), 162173 Ryugu (2018) and 101955...
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    Oort-cloud comets and by the recent impact study of Jupiter-family comet Tempel 1. The Oort cloud is thought to have developed after the formation of planets...
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    Baugh, Nicole F. (2006). "Photometry and Imaging Results for Comet 9P/Tempel 1 and Deep Impact: Gas Production Rates, Postimpact Light Curves, and Ejecta...
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    bodies including the dwarf planet Ceres, asteroid 101955 Bennu, and comet Tempel 1, as well as Jupiter's moon Europa. Like all phyllosilicates, clay minerals...
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    comet visited by the Deep Impact spacecraft, which first visited comet Tempel 1 on 4 July 2005. Comet Hartley 2 is a small Jupiter-family comet having...
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    mission CONTOUR, a co-investigator of the Deep Impact space mission to Comet Tempel 1, and is the principal investigator on the NASA Discovery Mission of Opportunity...
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  • comets as with the recent Deep impact mission that travelled to Comet Tempel 1, and near-Earth asteroids with the occasional use of the Hubble and Spitzer...
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  • observed the aftermath of the Deep Impact probe's collision with comet Tempel 1. Comet Tempel-Tuttle was recovered on March 4, 1997 by Karen Meech, Olivier Hainaut...
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    occur until Viking 1 in 1976), the asteroid Eros in 2001 (NEAR Shoemaker), Saturn's moon Titan in 2004 (Huygens), the comets Tempel 1 (Deep Impact) in 2005...
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  • Ash Ra Tempel is the eponymous debut studio album by the Krautrock band Ash Ra Tempel. Engineered by Conny Plank, it was recorded in March 1971 and released...
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    studying comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko determined that electrons (within 1 km (0.62 mi) above the comet nucleus) produced from photoionization of water...
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    1999, the baseline mission was to launch in April 2003, reaching comet Tempel 1 in 2006. The sample return element of the mission was at this point contingent...
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    Jan van den Tempel (1 August 1877 – 27 June 1955) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) now merged into the Labour...
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    Imaging instruments on board observed the collision between the comet Tempel 1 and the impactor of the Deep Impact mission. 2007 25 February – Mars flyby...
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    supported by studies of comet cloud sizes and the recent impact study of comet Tempel 1. Many scientists think that the Hills cloud formed from a close (800 AU)...
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    Archive. Retrieved 15 June 2019. "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 9P/Tempel 1" (2019-01-02 last obs). Retrieved 8 June 2019. Agle, D. C.; Brown, Dwayne;...
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    2005 (redirect from 1 July 2005)
    is launched from Cape Canaveral with the purpose of studying the comet Tempel 1. January 14 – The Huygens spacecraft lands on Titan, the largest moon of...
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  • first time in its history. 2005 – The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1. 2006 – Space Shuttle program: Discovery launches STS-121 to the International...
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