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Springer Netherlands
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Deep Impact, or at least part of the flight system, is designed to crash into comet 9P/Tempel 1. This bold mission design enables cometary researchers to peer into the cometary nucleus, analyzing the excavated material with its imagers and spectrometers. The book describes the mission, its objectives, expected results, payload, and data products in articles written by those most closely involved. This mission has the potential of revolutionizing our understanding of the cometary nucleus. |
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In the context of the NASA Deep Impact space mission, comet 9P/Tempel1 has been at the focus of an unprecedented worldwide long-term multi-wavelength observation campaign. The comet was also studied throughout its perihelion passage by various sources including the Deep Impact mission itself, the Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer, Rosetta, XMM and all major ground-based observatories in a wavelength band from cm-wave radio astronomy to x-rays. This book includes the proceedings of a meeting that brought together an audience of theoreticians and observers - across the electromagnetic spectrum and from different sites and projects - to make full use of the massive ground-based observing data set. The coherent presentation of all data sets illustrates and examines the various observational constraints on modelling the cometary nucleus, cometary gas, cometary plasma, cometary dust, and the comet's surface and its activity. |
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By Frank Joseph Fede
Black Belt Press
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This second edition features new introductory material, new phots, and a new dust jacket. Fede was raised in Birmingham, Alabama's Little Italy. He tells us how labor shortages drew Italian immigrants to Birmingham's coal and steel industries. These new Americans quickly became farmers, grocers, and merchants, and the next generation became doctors, bankers, and lawyers. Their collective history helped shape the culture of the growing city, which was enriched by their contributions to religion, sports, art, commerce, and politics. |
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By World Spaceflight News
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Released: 2005-08-26
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Here is the complete story of the historic Deep Impact spacecraft mission, which sent an impactor into Comet Tempel 1. On July 4, 2005 at 5:52:24 Universal Time the Deep Impact team received confirmation that the mission they had put into action in November of 1999 had reached success when the first image of a newly impacted comet Tempel 1 flashed onto the screens of the control room at Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The dark icy nucleus with its own "fireworks" display showed that the impactor spacecraft, released from its flyby spacecraft 24 hours before had not only guided itself to the sunlit side of the comet nucleus, but had collided hard enough to brighten the comet coma so that the difference could be seen through telescopes on Earth. Images of the dark black nucleus of Comet Tempel 1 showed the ejecta plume caused by the impactor crashing into the icy surface. Those watching from Earth were actually able to see the plume grow as the images were returned through the antennas of the Deep Space Network. Deep Impact, a NASA Discovery Mission, is the first space mission to probe beneath the surface of a comet and reveal the secrets of its interior. Comet Tempel 1 was discovered in 1867 by Ernst Tempel. The comet has made many passages through the inner solar system orbiting the Sun every 5.5 years. This makes Tempel 1 a good target to study evolutionary change in the mantle, or upper crust. Comets are visible for two reasons. First, dust driven from a comet's nucleus reflects sunlight as it travels through space. Second, certain gases in the comet's coma, stimulated by the Sun, give off light like a fluorescent bulb. Over time, a comet may become less active or even dormant. Scientists are eager to learn whether comets exhaust their supply of gas and dust to space or seal it into their interiors. They would also like to learn about the structure of a comet's interior and how it is different from its surface. Seventeen days after its encounter with comet Tempel 1, NASA's Deep Impact flyby spacecraft successfully executed a trajectory correction maneuver that places the spacecraft on a path to fly past Earth on Dec. 31, 2007. The 900-second burn, which changed the spacecraft's velocity by 216 miles per hour, preserves the space agency's options for future use of the comet hunter. Coverage includes: * Details about the spacecraft, mission, science, technology, and educational aspects of the program. * An extensive multimedia gallery with hundreds of images, plu 24 video clips of the mission. This incredible CD-ROM is packed with over 7,000 pages reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Macintosh systems. Our news and educational CD-ROM and DVD-ROM discs are privately compiled collections of official public domain U.S. government files and documents - they are not produced by the federal government. They are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Adobe Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed, searched by finding specific words, or printed without untold hours of tedious research and downloading. Vast archives of important public domain government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review no matter where you are. This book-on-a-disc format makes a great reference work and educational tool. There is no other reference that is as fast, convenient, comprehensive, thoroughly researched, and portable - everything you need to know, from the federal sources you trust. World Spaceflight News has covered spaceflight and the Space Shuttle program since 1983. At WSN, our mission is simple: provide space enthusiasts and professionals around the globe with unique technical information and historical material about spaceflight. We hope that a better appreciation of the complexities and challenges posed by space exploration will foster incr |
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Books LLC
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Better Loosen Up, Deep Impact, T M Opera O, Admire Moon, Symboli Rudolf, Pilsudski, Golden Pheasant, Singspiel, Tokai Teio, Horlicks, El Condor Pasa, Mairzy Doates, Falbrav. Excerpt: Better Loosen Up (Chinese: ) was an Australian Thoroughbred racehorse who won the Japan Cup in 1990 and was named Australia's champion racehorse in 1991. A small bay gelding, by Loosen Up (US) out of Better Fantasy, he campaigned from two to seven years of age, and won 17 of his 45 starts, including eight Group One races. In 2004, he was inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame. Better Loosen Up was foaled in Berrigan, New South Wales, and, under the care of Les Theodore, won one of his four starts as two-year-old - a maiden at Bendigo on 28 April 1988. At three, he was transferred to the Sydney stables of Bart Cummings, where he won four races and was runner-up in the Canterbury Guineas. At season's end, his record stood at a relatively unprepossessing five wins from 16 starts, although Les Theodore claims to have told the staff at Lindsay Park that the horse was a 'champion'. Now trained by Colin Hayes, Better Loosen Up resumed late in the spring of 1989, on Caulfield Cup day, with a close second, and finished the year with three Group One wins in as many starts, in the Honda Stakes, the Winfield Stakes, and the Railway Stakes. In the new year, he defeated Super Impose and Vo Rogue in the Blamey and the Segenhoe Stakes, and was runner-up to Vo Rogue in the Australian Cup in between. In his final starts for the season, he was defeated by Sydeston on heavy tracks in the Mercedes Classic and Queen Elizabeth Stakes. At five, under the care of David Hayes (Colin Hayes had retired at the end of the 1989-1990 season), Better Loosen Up was better again. After... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1186136 |
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: English Channel, Lost in the Fog, Invasor, Afleet Alex, Shamardal, Student Council, Detroit City, Deep Impact, Seachange, Einstein, Scrappy T, Hurricane Run, Manduro, My Typhoon, Flower Alley, Apache Cat, Giacomo, Wilko, Divine Proportions, Spun Sugar, Wild Desert, Buzzards Bay, Gold Strike, Jambalaya, Declan's Moon, Wahid, Sky Conqueror, Silver Train, Thor's Echo, Motivator, True Metropolitan, Kane Hekili, Smuggler, Round Pond, Good Ba Ba, Scorpion, Closing Argument, Aragorn, Proud Accolade. Excerpt: Afleet Alex Afleet Alex (born May 9, 2002 in Florida ) is an American thoroughbred race horse who, in 2005, won two of America's classic races , the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes . He is owned by the Cash Is King Stable partnership, was trained by Tim Ritchey and was ridden by Jeremy Rose . Early life and racing career Bred in Florida by John Martin Silvertand, Alex is out of the winning mare Maggy Hawk and counts multiple Grade 2-placed Unforgettable Max as a full brother. Maggy Hawk is by Hawkster, a world record holder on turf at a mile and a half. His maternal granddam is 1983 Demoiselle Stakes (G1) winner Qualique. Qualique was sired by Hawaii, a multiple grade one (G1) winner and marathon turf specialist. Also on his dam's side is Sir Gaylord, half-brother to Secretariat , who sired his fourth dam, Gaylord's Touch. Maggy Hawk has three foals of racing age, two runners, two winners and two stakes horses, including Afleet Alex. He was sired by Northern Afleet, a stakes winner from seven furlongs to nine furlongs, who was the son of the 1987 Canadian Horse of the Year , Afleet. Afleet was by the leading sire Mr. Prospector . Alex was foaled May 9, 2002 at John Martin Silvertand's farm in Florida. At the outset, this plucky colt faced adversity: his mother could not nu... |
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Geological Society of Amer
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International Atomic Energy Agency
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By Meg Green
Thomson Gale
Released: 2007-06-20
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This digital document is an article from Best's Review, published by Thomson Gale on May 1, 2007. The length of the article is 1699 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Deep impact: new Florida homeowners insurance laws are influencing the insurance and reinsurance market in other states and other lines.(Reinsurance/Capital Markets: Expanded Florida Law)
Author: Meg Green
Publication: Best's Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2007
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Thomson Gale
Released: 2005-10-11
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Title: Deep impact.(Mail)(Letter to the Editor)
Publication: Industrial Engineer (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 37 Issue: 9 Page: 11(2)
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