Deep Impact: observations from a worldwide Earth-based campaign. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • On 4 July 2005, many observatories around the world and in space observed the collision of Deep Impact with comet 9P/Tempel 1 or its aftermath. This was an unprecedented coordinated observational campaign. These data show that (i) there was new material after impact that was compositionally different from that seen before impact; (ii) the ratio of dust mass to gas mass in the ejecta was much larger than before impact; (iii) the new activity did not last more than a few days, and by 9 July the comet's behavior was indistinguishable from its pre-impact behavior; and (iv) there were interesting transient phenomena that may be correlated with cratering physics.

published proceedings

  • Science

author list (cited authors)

  • Meech, K. J., Ageorges, N., A'Hearn, M. F., Arpigny, C., Ates, A., Aycock, J., ... Zucconi, J.

citation count

  • 176

complete list of authors

  • Meech, KJ||Ageorges, N||A'Hearn, MF||Arpigny, C||Ates, A||Aycock, J||Bagnulo, S||Bailey, J||Barber, R||Barrera, L||Barrena, R||Bauer, JM||Belton, MJS||Bensch, F||Bhattacharya, B||Biver, N||Blake, G||Bockelée-Morvan, D||Boehnhardt, H||Bonev, BP||Bonev, T||Buie, MW||Burton, MG||Butner, HM||Cabanac, R||Campbell, R||Campins, H||Capria, MT||Carroll, T||Chaffee, F||Charnley, SB||Cleis, R||Coates, A||Cochran, A||Colom, P||Conrad, A||Coulson, IM||Crovisier, J||deBuizer, J||Dekany, R||de Léon, J||Dello Russo, N||Delsanti, A||DiSanti, M||Drummond, J||Dundon, L||Etzel, PB||Farnham, TL||Feldman, P||Fernández, YR||Filipovic, MD||Fisher, S||Fitzsimmons, A||Fong, D||Fugate, R||Fujiwara, H||Fujiyoshi, T||Furusho, R||Fuse, T||Gibb, E||Groussin, O||Gulkis, S||Gurwell, M||Hadamcik, E||Hainaut, O||Harker, D||Harrington, D||Harwit, M||Hasegawa, S||Hergenrother, CW||Hirst, P||Hodapp, K||Honda, M||Howell, ES||Hutsemékers, D||Iono, D||Ip, W-H||Jackson, W||Jehin, E||Jiang, ZJ||Jones, GH||Jones, PA||Kadono, T||Kamath, UW||Käufl, HU||Kasuga, T||Kawakita, H||Kelley, MS||Kerber, F||Kidger, M||Kinoshita, D||Knight, M||Lara, L||Larson, SM||Lederer, S||Lee, C-F||Levasseur-Regourd, AC||Li, JY||Li, Q-S||Licandro, J||Lin, Z-Y||Lisse, CM||LoCurto, G||Lovell, AJ||Lowry, SC||Lyke, J||Lynch, D||Ma, J||Magee-Sauer, K||Maheswar, G||Manfroid, J||Marco, O||Martin, P||Melnick, G||Miller, S||Miyata, T||Moriarty-Schieven, GH||Moskovitz, N||Mueller, BEA||Mumma, MJ||Muneer, S||Neufeld, DA||Ootsubo, T||Osip, D||Pandea, SK||Pantin, E||Paterno-Mahler, R||Patten, B||Penprase, BE||Peck, A||Petitas, G||Pinilla-Alonso, N||Pittichova, J||Pompei, E||Prabhu, TP||Qi, C||Rao, R||Rauer, H||Reitsema, H||Rodgers, SD||Rodriguez, P||Ruane, R||Ruch, G||Rujopakarn, W||Sahu, DK||Sako, S||Sakon, I||Samarasinha, N||Sarkissian, JM||Saviane, I||Schirmer, M||Schultz, P||Schulz, R||Seitzer, P||Sekiguchi, T||Selman, F||Serra-Ricart, M||Sharp, R||Snell, RL||Snodgrass, C||Stallard, T||Stecklein, G||Sterken, C||Stüwe, JA||Sugita, S||Sumner, M||Suntzeff, N||Swaters, R||Takakuwa, S||Takato, N||Thomas-Osip, J||Thompson, E||Tokunaga, AT||Tozzi, GP||Tran, H||Troy, M||Trujillo, C||Van Cleve, J||Vasundhara, R||Vazquez, R||Vilas, F||Villanueva, G||von Braun, K||Vora, P||Wainscoat, RJ||Walsh, K||Watanabe, J||Weaver, HA||Weaver, W||Weiler, M||Weissman, PR||Welsh, WF||Wilner, D||Wolk, S||Womack, M||Wooden, D||Woodney, LM||Woodward, C||Wu, Z-Y||Wu, J-H||Yamashita, T||Yang, B||Yang, Y-B||Yokogawa, S||Zook, AC||Zauderer, A||Zhao, X||Zhou, X||Zucconi, J-M

publication date

  • October 2005