Posted on 01/16/2004 6:49:31 PM PST by Lokibob
Send Your Name to a Comet
What is the Send Your Name to a Comet campaign?
Glad you asked! The Deep Impact mission will dig deep beneath the surface of a comet to get a first-ever look at the frozen collection of ice and dust left over from the formation of the solar system. Why are we doing it? We learn about comets by studying the ice and dust that flows naturally from a comet as it is warmed by the Sun. But we will learn additional information by getting down inside where the more pristine material is hidden. Scientists expect to find hidden clues about how the solar system formed when they look at the structure of Comet Tempel 1. To accomplish our goal, we will have to make a deep crater in the surface with a 370 kg (820 lb) copper-nosed impactor spacecraft. Telescopes and instruments on the sister spacecraft, the flyby, will observe the impact from a safe distance of 500 km (300 mi).
Sound exciting? Want to be part of it? Well, you can!
You can send your name crashing into Comet Tempel 1 by going to Send Your Name to a Comet. Once you have filled in and submitted the form, your name will be recorded along with many others on a disc mounted on the impactor spacecraft. You may choose to print out a personalized commemorative certificate. Bookmark your certificate for later viewing and tell your friends, so they can send their name to a comet as well!
In fact, we'll make it easy for you to tell your friends. Just enter one or more Email addresses in our form below and click "Submit". We'll send them a brief Email describing this opportunity and offering a link to this web page. You can send this announcement to any person or group you would like to have know about the Send Your Name to a Comet campaign. Names you offer will not be automatically entered into our database nor registered in our campaign, so encourage friends to visit the Deep Impact site for themselves and register their name there.
This project will stop taking names on January 31, 2004.
What is the Send Your Name to a Comet campaign?
Glad you asked! The Deep Impact mission will dig deep beneath the surface of a comet to get a first-ever look at the frozen collection of ice and dust left over from the formation of the solar system. Why are we doing it? We learn about comets by studying the ice and dust that flows naturally from a comet as it is warmed by the Sun. But we will learn additional information by getting down inside where the more pristine material is hidden. Scientists expect to find hidden clues about how the solar system formed when they look at the structure of Comet Tempel 1. To accomplish our goal, we will have to make a deep crater in the surface with a 370 kg (820 lb) copper-nosed impactor spacecraft. Telescopes and instruments on the sister spacecraft, the flyby, will observe the impact from a safe distance of 500 km (300 mi).
Sound exciting? Want to be part of it? Well, you can!
You can send your name crashing into Comet Tempel 1 by going to Send Your Name to a Comet. Once you have filled in and submitted the form, your name will be recorded along with many others on a disc mounted on the impactor spacecraft. You may choose to print out a personalized commemorative certificate. Bookmark your certificate for later viewing and tell your friends, so they can send their name to a comet as well!
In fact, we'll make it easy for you to tell your friends. Just enter one or more Email addresses in our form below and click "Submit". We'll send them a brief Email describing this opportunity and offering a link to this web page. You can send this announcement to any person or group you would like to have know about the Send Your Name to a Comet campaign. Names you offer will not be automatically entered into our database nor registered in our campaign, so encourage friends to visit the Deep Impact site for themselves and register their name there.
This project will stop taking names on January 31, 2004.
No worse than "recording your star name in book form in the U.S. Copyright Office."
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