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Old 12-July-2005, 02:31 PM
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Originally posted by Guest_Mike Ashcroft@Jul 12 2005, 10:46 AM
Fantastic results. Can anybody tell me why copper was chosen as the material for the impactor?
Copper was chosen as the impactor material so that it would not chemically react with the comet's surface (that would muddy up the data presumably).
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