A good look at the Deep Impact cometary encounter was taken by the Rosetta mission, itself on the way to a rendezvous with a comet in 2014. So what is a comet — icy dustball or dusty iceball?
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Feldman, P. The impact of Deep Impact. Nature 437, 958–959 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/437958a
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