Deep impact spacecraft to make last swing by Earth on way to second comet

Saturday, June 26, 2010 - 08:42 in Astronomy & Space

On Sunday, NASA's historic Deep Impact spacecraft will fly past Earth for the fifth and last time on its current University of Maryland-led EPOXI mission. At time of closest approach to Earth, the spacecraft will be about 30,400 kilometres (18,900 miles) above the South Atlantic...

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