Deep Impact

I spent a little time in science geek heaven last night as I watched the folks at the Jet Propulsion Lab (on NASA TV) fly their impactor smack into the comet Tempel 1 .



Considering the speed of those two objects (the impactor traveling 23,000 mph) and the distance involved (83 million miles from earth), it was a an amazing feat of navigation. Congrats to the NASA and JPL folks for pulling that one off. The initial photos from the mother ship showed a huge explosion, even bigger than what the scientists had originally intended. I'm sure the computer enhanced photos will be nothing short of spectacular.