Comet Tempel 1

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Comet Tempel 1 of the Jupiter system

NASA’s Deep Space probe took this picture of Comet Tempel 1 (designation  9P/Tempel), which is a comet in the Jupiter system. It was taken by Deep Space probe’s impactor targeting sensor, about five minutes before it deliberately impacted/crashed with Comet Tempel 1. This comet is relatively small in size, 7.6 km × 4.9 km in diameter and has a rotational period of 40.7 hours.

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