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FOOTNOTE: *The cameraless U.S. spacecraft ICE made the first close approach to a comet last September, when it passed only 5,000 miles behind the nucleus of Comet Giacobini-Zinner...
...armada of Soviet, Japanese and European space probes hurtled through the cosmos toward their heralded meetings with the fabled comet next March, they were upstaged by a modest and almost archaic Ameri can spacecraft. The International Cometary Explorer whipped through the tail of an obscure apparition called Giacobini-Zinner, thereby becoming the first man-made object to encounter a comet...
...sophisticated mission would cost. He soon realized, however, that the radio on the diminutive probe was too weak to transmit data from 80 million miles away, the distance of Halley when it is most accessible to visiting earthships. Additional research suggested a less glamorous but more practical alternative: comet Giacobini-Zinner, which orbits the sun once every 6.5 years and could be easily visited when it was about 44 million miles from the earth, well within the satellite's radio range. As an added bonus, a rendezvous with G-Z, as NASA scientists call it, could occur six months ahead...
...bowed out of the race to intercept Halley's comet with a robot spacecraft, thus leaving the field to the Soviets, Western Europeans and Japanese. But NASA plans a relatively cheap ($2 million) alternative: diverting an unmanned ship already in orbit for an inspection of a comet called Giacobini-Zinner, which will appear a few months ahead of its famous...
Despite reports that particles from the tail of the Giacobini-Zinner comet might damage the Russian artificial moon or deflect its orbit downward, University astronomers seem to feel that there is no danger of such an event. They said last night that the warning by British astronomer A. C. Lovell that the satellite might be destroyed because it lacked atmospheric protection had been misinterpreted...