NASA picks new targets for Deep Impact probe

NASA has picked a pair of celestial targets for the Deep Impact spacecraft that blasted the comet Tempel-1 with a copper projectile on July 4, 2005. Under the Extrasolar Planet Observation and Characterization and Deep Impact Extended Investigation (EPOXI) mission, the Ball Aerospace mothership will...

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