Ghostly Travellers The Sky at Night : Season 2010 Episode 11
BBC Four 20m
Aired: February 5th, 1958 @ 10:00 PM EST on BBC Four
Comets are strange and exotic objects, the remnants from dead stars and the birth pangs of our solar system. Only a handful of these ghostly, celestial objects have been seen at close quarters. Sir Patrick Moore discusses NASA's EPOXI mission, which hopes to rendezvous with comet Hartley 2.
