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Halley encounter - Artist view

by

Don Dixon/Novapix

Reference

e-son30-00004

Date

2007-01-07

The night of the Giotto-Halley encounter, shows the peanut-shaped nucleus of Halley's comet.Giotto spacecraft was launched on July 02 1985, to investigate the comet 1P/Halley. In March 1986, Giotto was the last probe to approach the comet and the only one to attempt a close flyby of its nucleus.