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Two-timing Spacecraft Has Date with Another Comet

By Guest PostFebruary 12, 20111 commentSciencecomet surface, comet tempel, comets nucleus, jupiter family comet, stardust next, stardust spacecraft, two timing spacecraft

NASA’s Stardust spacecraft, equipped with the University of Chicago’s Dust Flux Monitor Instrument (DFMI), is hurtling at more than 24,000 miles an hour toward a Valentine’s Day encounter with comet Tempel 1. (more…)