Placing the Deep Impact Mission into con
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A.L. Cochran; E.S. Barker; M.D. Caballero; J. GyΓΆrgey-Ries
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Article
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2009
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Elsevier Science
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English
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We report on low-spectral resolution observations of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 from 1983, 1989, 1994 and 2005 using the 2.7 m Harlan J. Smith telescope of McDonald Observatory. This comet was the target of NASA's Deep Impact mission and our observations allowed us to characterize the comet prior to the impa