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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Upcoming events for calendar
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Date: Fri, 6-Sep-85 14:59:07 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  6 14:59:07 1985
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>March 28, 1986	Int'l Cometary Explorer (NASA) fly-by of Halley's Comet, 3Mkm

3Mkm isn't a fly-by, it's a fly-in-the-vague-neighborhood-of.  Especially
since the "International Cometary Explorer" is not very well equipped for
studying comets.  Unless one is trying to be a fanatical completist, this
does not belong in the same list as Giotto or Planet A.  Back when the ICE
was still ISEE3, it held the record for being the farthest object that
could still be said, in a very loose sense, to be in "Earth orbit" -- and
it was closer to Earth than it will ever get to Halley.

Okay, include it -- but please don't call that a "fly-by".
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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