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Flying By Comet Hartley 2 at 27,560MPH

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,560MPH, 12.32 km/h. That was the whizzing speed of NASA’s spacecraft Deep Impact as it approached comet Hartley on its EPOXI mission. Here’s a time lapse video of its complete trajectory, just released by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

https://gizmodo.com/beautiful-first-images-of-comet-hartley-2-5681690

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