Derby and District Astronomical Society

Deep Impact Carries DDAS Name
4th July 2005

The impactor spacecraft from NASA's Deep Impact Mission successfully smashed into Comet Tempel 1 on the 4th July 2005 carrying the (now vaporised!) name of our Society with it! For all the details check out the mission home page at http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/home/. To see our NASA 'Send Your Name to a Comet' certificate click here.