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OU and BBC Stardate series to Broadcast Deep Impact mission
As NASA crashes a space-probe into a comet, blasting a crater the size of Wembley stadium, the award-winning Open University and BBC astronomy series Stardate will be broadcasting from mission headquarters bringing the latest pictures and reactions from the project’s scientists to the British public.
Stardate: Deep Impact – produced by Screenhouse Productions -will be on location at the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab in Los Angeles on 4 July 2005, as the NASA space mission Deep Impact unfolds.
After a voyage lasting 173 days and 431 million kilometres (268 million miles), NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft will get up-close and personal with comet Tempel 1 on 4 July – American Independence Day.
The hyper-speed impact between the space-borne iceberg and washing machine sized copper impactor will be the first time this has been tries and is scheduled for 6:52 am UK summer time. The potentially spectacular collision will be observed by the Deep Impact mother-ship, and ground and space-based observatories.
Hosted by Dr Brian Cox and Dr Lucie Green, Stardate will ensure that Britain is kept up-to-date as this important astronomical event unfolds.
Dr Brian Cox, is a particle physicist at CERN in Switzerland, Manchester University, and Fermilab in the USA. Dr Cox was a keyboard player of rock band D:ream. Dr Lucie Green (previous co-host of the Stardate series) works at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory in Surrey.
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