CAN YOU ANSWER THIS? ANSWERS - JANUARY 2004

1. Why is the spacecraft solar panel hinged and in two parts?
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/disczone/braintwist-mission1a.cfm

2. If we need as heavy an impactor as possible to make a crater in a comet, why did we recently need to remove some weight from the impactor?
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/disczone/braintwist-mission4a.cfm

3. What is the orbital period for our target Comet Tempel 1?
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/science/tempel1.cfm

4. Between the impactor and the flyby spacecraft, how many instruments will take visual images?
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/tech/instruments.cfm

5. How did the mission get the name Deep Impact?
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/di-name.cfm

6. How large do we think Comet Tempel 1 is?
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/science/tempel1.cfm

7. What is a Whipple Shield and what does it do?
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/newsletter/200308.cfm

8. Where is the spacecraft being built?
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/tech/index.cfm

9. What is a Discovery Mission?
http://discovery.nasa.gov/

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