Tomorrow (or, really late tonight), a NASA space shuttle will collide with the comet Tempel 1, hopefully boring a hole into the comet, giving us mere humans a little more insight into what a comet actually is.
The impact is set to occur at 1:52 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time on July 4th (a.k.a. about 10 minutes before 2 a.m. tonight for those in the eastern U.S. and Canada). Here in Japan the time will be 2:52 p.m. in the afternoon. Brian and I both hope to have a few minutes to tune in to the "crash" - in this high-tech world of ours, we can tune in to see the collision on several webcasts; find one here at Space.com, and a some near-real-time images here .
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