Sentences with phrase «flown by comets»
Other spacecraft have flown by comets at high speed or orbited asteroids.
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A flurry of spacecraft, led by a European craft called Giotto, flew past Giacobini - Zinner in 1985 and Halley's comet in 1986.
Because the Explorer was «very tenuously held by Earth,» says Farquhar, it was relatively easy to break that connection in 1982 and send the craft off on an unplanned mission — to fly through the tail of the comet Giacobini - Zinner.
Results from previous comet - fly - by missions — which have snapped photos and even grabbed particles from a comet's tail — have proved inconclusive, but Rosetta's extended stay and carefully chosen toolkit mean it is well placed to provide answers.
In case you haven't heard by now, a comet is basically a big ball of dirt and ice flying through our solar system.
Astronomers were watching when comet P / 2016 BA14 flew close by Earth on 22 March at a distance of slightly more than nine times the distance of the Moon.
On November 4, 2010, NASA's EPOXI mission flew at a close distance of around 435 miles (or 700 kilometers) by Comet Hartley 2, which was then an active short - period comet with jets of gas and dust coming off its sun - lit end and which completes an orbit in less than 6.5 years.
Both events are accompanied by the same lengthy text that describes «what exactly happened» after London, where «the river is off limits... a boiling sludge... and the sky is off limits too... the bees have the air... nothing inside gets outside... and talk - talk only flies inside...», and where «after London everyone outside struggles with the flood caused by the comet...».