{"id":33,"date":"2005-07-03T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-03T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/deep-impact\/"},"modified":"2005-07-03T08:01:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-03T15:01:00","slug":"deep-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/03\/deep-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here I am, a fully credentialed professional scientist, and I get my cool science tips from <a href=\"http:\/\/blondesense.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/i-read-some-news-today-oh-boy.html\">BlondeSense<\/a>.  I did know that the NASA probe Deep Impact is scheduled to collide with the comet Tempel 1 early in the morning of July 4th (or late at night on the 3rd, depending on your local time zone).  But I didn&#8217;t know there&#8217;d be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/scienceastronomy\/050701_deep_impact_web.html\">webcast<\/a>. Don&#8217;t expect smooth high-resolution video, but you can get images updated every 45 seconds from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noao.edu\/news\/deep-impact\/\">Kitt Peak<\/a>, or watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/nasatv\/MM_NTV_Breaking.html\">NASA TV<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/050702\/photos_sc\/mdf596694\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/images\/deepimpact.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t be watching in real time, as I&#8217;ll be winging my way over the Atlantic Ocean from Chicago to Paris at the moment of collision, about 12:52 a.m. Central Time on July 4th.  You feel sorry for me, I know.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, are the folks at NASA public-relations geniuses, or what?  Not only do they schedule the impact for Independence Day, but they&#8217;ve made a CD with the names of 650,000 people who signed up for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/businesstechnology\/050630_deep_impact_CDs.html\">Send Your Name to a Comet<\/a> campaign.  A copy of the CD is on the spacecraft, and will smash into the comet along with the rest of it.  Brilliant.  If only they would use their powers for good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here I am, a fully credentialed professional scientist, and I get my cool science tips from BlondeSense. I did know that the NASA probe Deep Impact is scheduled to collide with the comet Tempel 1 early in the morning of July 4th (or late at night on the 3rd, depending on your local time zone). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}