• PROJECTS
• THE PLANETARY REPORT
• PLANETARY RADIO
  • Program Archives
  • Who's Who
  • Radio Stations
  • Podcast
• BLOG
• SOCIETY UPDATES

browse projects: Apophis Mission Design Competition Asteroid Impact Mapping System Catalog of Exoplanets Drive a Mars Rover Extrasolar Planets Transit Search International Lunar Decade International Year of Astronomy 2009 LIFE Experiment: Phobos Mars Climate Sounder Team Website Messages from Earth Observing Earth Pioneer Anomaly Planetary Microphones S.O.S: Save Our Science! SETI Optical Telescope SETI Radio Searches SETI@home Shoemaker NEO Grants Solar Sailing Space Advocacy Space Information Stardust@home Target Earth Visions of Mars

browse space topics: 2001 Mars Odyssey Asteroids and Comets Cassini-Huygens Chandra X-Ray Observatory Chandrayaan-1 Chang'e 1 Compare the Planets Dawn Deep Impact Earth Extrasolar Planets Genesis Hayabusa (MUSES-C) Hubble Space Telescope Jupiter Kaguya (SELENE) Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Mars Mars Exploration Rovers Mars Express Mars Global Surveyor Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Science Laboratory Mercury MESSENGER Moon Near Earth Objects Neptune New Horizons New Horizons Digital Time Capsule Past Missions Phoenix Planetary Analogs Planetary Exploration Timelines Planetfest 2008 Pluto and Charon Pluto Top Ten Postcards from Venus Private Missions Rosetta Saturn Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence SMART-1 SOHO Space Imaging Spitzer Space Telescope Stardust Trans-Neptunian Objects Ulysses Uranus Venus Venus Express Voyager Weekly Planetary Radio Trivia Contest

Planetary Radio

Deep Impact: The Real Thing

Airdate: Monday, January 10, 2005
Running Time: 00:28:50
Listen: Windows Media | MP3

The launch of the Deep Impact spacecraft this week begins a mission that will end on the 4th of July with the spectacular creation of a crater on a comet. The mission's Principal Investigator, Mike A'Hearn, is our guest. Emily Lakdawalla knows there is something other than an earthquake that can generate a tsunami. Space headlines, and Bruce Betts offers a new space trivia contest on What's Up.

Guests

• Mike A'Hearn, Deep Impact's Principal Investigator

Related Information

• A Look at the Science of Deep Impact
• Deep Impact Set to Launch on Collision Course with Comet
• JPL Deep Impact Website
• Other Missions to Asteroids and Comets
• The Planetary Society's Near Earth Objects Pages