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Comet Tempel 1 (9P)

Three image animation taken on the evening of the 04th July 2005

Taken 13 hours after the Deep Impact mission , Impactor probe had successfully hit the comet.

North = Up - East = Left. Exposures. Single shots of 120 seconds.

Mid exposure times: 21:59:41-UT - 22:04:48-UT - 22:17:49-UT

Other Images.Photometricand astrometry sent in to MPC at Harvard and the exposures were of a 5 second duration.

COD J93
OBS John Fletcher
MEA John Fletcher
TEL 0.25-m f/5.5 Schmidt-Cassegrain + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2005.07.04 23:47:04
AC2 jfmto@blueyonder.co.uk
NET USNO-A2.0
0009P C2005 07 04.90780 13 39 03.60 -09 49 34.1 13.8 N J93
0009P C2005 07 04.90870 13 39 03.69 -09 49 35.7 13.7 N J93
0009P C2005 07 04.91332 13 39 04.08 -09 49 43.1 13.8 N J93
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