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Deep Impact: A Journey in Physics

Michael A'Hearn

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Format: Lecture followed by Q&A

Length: 59 minutes

Astronomer Michael A'Hearn '61, principal investigator of NASA's Deep Impact Project, returns to campus as part of the “Master Class: Alumni in Residence” series. A'Hearn, also a professor of astronomy at the University of Maryland, led the team of physicists and engineers that in July 2005 intentionally collided a rocket with the comet Tempel 1, the first time humans had touched a comet in space.

A'Hearn is interviewed by Michael Naughton, a professor of physics at Boston College.

Presenter(s): Michael A'Hearn

Date: April 10, 2006

Location: Higgins 310, Boston College

Sponsor(s): Boston College Magazine; Physics Department; Boston College Graduate Student Association

URL: http://frontrow.bc.edu/program/ahearn/

The information on this page is accurate as of April 2006