On Target:NASA Rocket Slams Into CometJul 4 8:39 AM EDT━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━It sounded like science fiction NASA scientists used a space probe to chase down a speeding comet 83 million miles away and slammed it into the frozen ball of dirty ice and debris in a mission to learn how the solar system was formed. science fiction:科幻小说NASA:美国航空航天局(National Aeronautics and Space Administration)space probe:空间探测器chase down:找寻comet:彗星debris:残骸 碎片solar system:太阳系━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━The unmanned probe of the Deep Impact mission collided with Tempel 1,a pickle-shaped comet half the size of Manhattan, late Sunday as thousands of people across the country fixed their eyes to the southwestern sky for a glimpse.unmanned:不载人的Deep Impact:深度撞击号(这是以电影《彗星撞地球》Deep Impact的名字命名)collide with:撞击 冲击Temple 1:坦普尔1号pickle-shaped:难以确定其形状的fix one's eyes:注视(一般这个词组是跟on这个介词的，可是这里强调的是西南这个方向，所以用to)glimpse:一瞥━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━The cosmic smash-up did not significantly alter the comet's orbit around the sun and NASA said the experiment does not pose any danger to Earth-unlike the scary comet headed for Earth in the 1998 movie,"Deep Impact."cosmic:宇宙的smash-up:撞击comet's orbit:彗星的飞行轨道pose:引起headed for:朝..的方向"Deep Impact":这里是指那部《彗星撞地球》的电影━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━From AP [消息来源 美国 联合通讯社]

more info about the Deep Impact mission:http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/deepimpact/main/index.html上期：Egypt ambassador to Iraq kidnappedhttp://post.baidu.com/f?kz=22111014

I watched the lives on CCTV-news today.The crash was at 13:52(Beijing Time)

me too~but i only watched the half part of that program