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Stardust may examine Deep Impact's crater on Comet Tempel 1!

A Tale of Two Comets - NASA's Stardust Samples Amaze Researchers, as
Mothership is Eyed for Recon at Deep Impact Site

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.nl.html?id=1103

"In a dramatic bid to maximize the utilization of existing, low- cost planetary
spacecraft, researchers want to divert the NASA/Lockheed Martin Stardust
comet-sample-return mothership to intercept and image a second comet,
blasted open last July 4 by the Deep Impact mission.

Stardust is about 20 million mi. behind the planet Earth in a solar orbit that
earlier enabled it to collect samples from the comet Wild 2."

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