Deep Impact: Amateur Observers: Where is Tempel 1? - Tempel 1 is a comet. Deep Impact is a probe which NASA plan to crash into it (friendly eh?). This page will help you to locate the comet's position at any given time.
Space probes have always carried some kind of message from Earth. Normally it's been the cosmic equivalent of "if found please return to...". However, over the last couple of years many of them have also included CDs containing lists of names submitted via the project web site (I see it as a shopping list for any aliens who want to get into the abduction business). Deep Impact has a similar plan.
I seem to have a knack of jinxing these things since I signed up to all the Mars probes that promptly went AWOL. However, in this case I think I'm helping.
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