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Andrew Yee
July 5th 05, 03:12 PM
Subaru Telescope
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
Hilo, Hawaii

July 4, 2005

Deep Impact News Flash
[http://www.subaru.naoj.org/Pressrelease/2005/07/DI/index.html]

NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has collided with the comet Tempel 1. The
following movie and images are taken by NHK's HDTV camera and the Cooled
Mid-Infrared Camera and Spectrograph (COMICS) on the Subaru telescope (for
more information, see this page). The data taken by COMICS has been made
publicly available for astronomers all over the world through this page.

Impact Movie and Image from HDTV

Data process ongoing.

Images from COMICS

Pre-impact:
Friday, July 1, 8:13 p.m. HST (false color)
http://www.subaru.naoj.org/Pressrelease/2005/07/DI/comics20050701.jpg
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Post-impact:
Sunday, July 3, 9:50 p.m. HST (false color)
http://www.subaru.naoj.org/Pressrelease/2005/07/DI/comics20050703.jpg
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