N. Foldager wrote:
Chris L Peterson:


I think the flyby craft is much too far away to get much of an image.
The analysis will have to proceed without a crater image.

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


No, the flyby craft flew by at about the same relative speed as the
impactor. Any future flyby (pending budget approval) will be with a
different comet. So whatever high-resolution data we will have
have already been taken. There seems to have been so much sunlight
reflected from dust in th eplume that getting a crater diameter
could be a long exercise in data analysis.

Bill Keel