On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 19:27:35 +0200, N. Foldager
wrote:

I understood that the craft would follow the comet, or make another
flyby later. Is this not correct?

The flyby craft and the comet have different velocities. The flyby craft
was positioned close to the comet at the time of collision; the two are
much farther apart now. High resolution images won't show much detail on
the comet anymore.

Technically, the mission is over (or will be in a few weeks). Given
funding, it might be possible to redirect the flyby craft to intercept
another small body. It isn't going to see Tempel 1 again, though.

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com