[raygun]

I wonder if that's a record number of times a weather bureau was struck by lightning.

[RightWhale]

BTW, there will be a live thread on Sunday for the Tempel impact. There is a good website at http://spaceflightnow.com/deepimpact/status.html

My question is whether the impact will be visible to the naked eye and whether the brightness would be mostly due to reflected sunlight or to the ionization caused by the release of kinetic energy. The projectile is about 800 pounds and it will be == > m o v i n g == > relative to the comet.