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NASA Space Probe Reaches Comet

NPR | By David Kestenbaum
Published July 4, 2005 at 12:00 AM EDT

Fourth of July fireworks started early in California as scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory celebrated the collision of its space probe with a comet 83 million miles away.

The impact occurred at 1:52 a.m. EDT Monday, according to NASA. Scientists hope the experiment will shed light on the formation of planets in the solar system billions of years ago.

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David Kestenbaum is a correspondent for NPR, covering science, energy issues and, most recently, the global economy for NPR's multimedia project Planet Money. David has been a science correspondent for NPR since 1999. He came to journalism the usual way — by getting a Ph.D. in physics first.