About 5-6 hours ago, NASA's deep impact spacecraft released its impactor which will ,in just under 18 hours from now, crash into comet Tempel 1 .The impact may make the comet bright enough to see with just binoculars.Nothing beats America smashing a comet on the 4th of July.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/de...ain/index.html
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2...deepimpact.htm
http://www.spaceweather.com/glossary/deepimpact.htm
