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Science 9 September 2005:
Vol. 309. no. 5741, p. 1667
DOI: 10.1126/science.309.5741.1667

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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Deep Impact Finds a Flying Snowbank of a Comet

Richard A. Kerr

Blasting a comet for science's sake turns out to be harder than expected, but targeting Tempel 1 has revealed a fragile body that's already been through geologic turmoil. The Deep Impact team members report online in Science this week (see www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1118978, www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1119020, and www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1118923) that the impact blew out so much unexpectedly fine powder that they still haven't seen the crater through all the dust.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)