☄️ Comet
Comet Tempel 1
The comet NASA hit on purpose, to see what it is made of.
- Size
- 6 km across
- Goes round the Sun
- every 5.6 Earth years
- Discovered
- 1867, by Wilhelm Tempel
Did you know?
- On 4 July 2005 NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft crashed a probe into it, blasting out a cloud of dust and ice for scientists to study.
- Its heart is about 6 km wide, around half the size of the space rock thought to have ended the dinosaurs.
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