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Deep Impact was a 2005 NASA mission to study the comet Tempel 1 (aka 9P/Tempel), by sending an impactor to crash into it, then observing the results. After successful completion of this mission, a follow-on mission for the spacecraft was carried out, which was termed EPOXI (for Extrasolar Planet Observation and Deep Impact Extended Investigation) which continued until 2013.