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Deep Impact Spacecraft collision with 9P/Tempel 1 Comet
An analysis of the July 4,
2005, NASA�s Deep Impact
spacecraft collision with the 9/Tempel 1 comet
confirms that comets are natural sources of antimatter. Upon contact, the Mirror
Energy explosion annihilated the spacecraft
and blasted antimatter dust particles off the 350 billion metric ton comet�s surface
into space. The Mirror Energy produced was estimated to have been equivalent
to all the energy that the World will be using in the twenty-first century.
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The photograph on the right was taken at 14:15 a.m.
(UT) and reveals the jet [the bright fan-shaped area]. The jet extended
over 2,200 kilometers into space. The Mirror Energy produced from the
projectile was 67 trillion mega-joules using Einstein's equation, E = mc2.
This is equivalent to the energy used in the World for one year.
The ensuring annihilation of solar and antimatter
dust particles blasted off the comet
produced a spectacular nineteen-hour display
that was recording by scientists around the World. The antimatter debris from
the explosion was scattered over radius of 3,200 kilometers (2,000 miles)
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The Hubble Space Telescope captures the
outburst
from the comet as shown in the black and white picture below. The jet is
composed of matter and antimatter particles streaming from the antimatter comet.
The initial explosion and nineteen-hour spectacular show produced a billion
times more energy than scientists had estimated.
The
big show for Independence Day was NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft colliding with the
antimatter 9P/Tempel 1
comet.
The comet was more than
130 million kilometers from Earth. The accuracy required was so great that one mission scientist said it was
like one bullet hitting another bullet with a third bullet exactly in position
to see it all happen. (Images: Nasa/JPL-Caltech/UMD)
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