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Satellite Survives Comet Tail Encounter In Space Milestone
The International Cometary Explorer sampled the Giacobini Zinner tail 44 million miles from Earth, logging a brief 20 minute run through a 14 000 mile wide plume. Data show a bowshock, turbulent plasma near half a million degrees, and minimal dust impact, marking humanitys first comet encounter.
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Giacobini-Zinner
Greenbelt
Edward J. Smith
NASA
International Cometary Explorer
Earth
Robert Farquhar
Soviet Union
Kremlin
Roald Sagdeev
Alec Galeev
Goddard Space Flight Center
United States
Tycho von Rosenvinge
von Rosenvinge
Smith
J. Bame
Los Alamos National Laboratory
New Mexico