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Send Your Name to a Comet!

 

NASA's Deep Impact mission will dig deep beneath the surface of a

comet for a

first-ever look at dust and ice from the early formation of the solar

system.

And your name can be part of the Deep Impact! From now until January

of 2004,

you can enter your name to be recorded on a disc and attached to the

side of the

copper projectile - the impactor spacecraft. Your name on the

impactor will

cause a spectacular crater on Comet Tempel 1 up to the length of a

football

stadium and several stories deep.

 

In July of 2005, the Deep Impact encounter will be an event that

everyone can

take part in by watching images from the impactor's sister spacecraft

as they

are sent down to Earth in near real time. If you want to know that

your name

went to a comet and became part of one of the most exciting events in

the

history of space exploration, then sign up now on Send Your Name to a

Comet and

tell all your friends so they can sign up too. We'll even provide you

with an

email announcement so you can contact your friends and relatives

about this

campaign.

 

Deep Impact is a NASA Discovery Mission, eighth in a series of low-

cost, highly

focused space science investigations.

 

For more information about the campaign, please visit

http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/sendyourname/index.html

 

 

For more information about the Deep Impact mission, please visit

http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov.