Science News, January 11th, 1986
Comet Halley: A Close Look on a Hot Day
Although no U.S. spacecraft belongs to the multinational fleet of probes heading for close encounters with Comet Halley in early March, there is one U.S. craft that will have the best seat in the house during what should be literally the hottest part of the comet's trip around the sun, less than a month from now. When the various Sovet, European and Japanese probes fly by -- with the European Space Agency's Giotto getting as near as 300 miles to the comet's icy nucleus -- the comet will be about 81 million miles from the sun, already heading away. On ...
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