Deep Impact: A Call for Pro-Am Observations of Comet 9P/Tempel 1

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Oct 2000

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American Astronomical Society, 196th AAS Meeting, #10.06; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 32, p.1280

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Deep Impact (DI) was selected in 1999 to be the eighth mission of the Discovery Program, funded by NASA. The mission's goal is to impact comet 9P/Tempel 1 on July 4, 2005 and analyze the resulting crater and ejecta to enhance our understanding of cometary nuclei and the evolution of the solar system. We are calling for advanced-amateur and professional CCD observers to join the mission's Small Telescope Science Program (STSP). The goal of this science program is to provide as much data on comet 9P as we can prior to impact. Our immediate need is for observations from June through December 2000, when the comet is at opposition and is visible from the northern and southern hemispheres. To illustrate the potential of this program, we present some images of comet 9P taken by our observers along with preliminary analyses. We also present equipment requirements and observing procedures needed for obtaining useful CCD images. Detailed information about STSP is available at the program's website: http://www.ss.astro.umd.edu/deepimpact/stsp. An overview of DI is available at the mission's website: http://www.ss.astro.umd.edu/deepimpact.

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