[DOC] [TLE] Giotto | space probe | Britannica.com [PAR] Giotto, European space probe that came within 596 km (370 miles) of the ... with 
a dust-covered, uneven surface darker than coal, and that the comet was ... Five 
interplanetary spacecraft flew past the comet in March 1986: two ... Close-up 
images of the nucleus obtained by Giotto showed a dark potato-shaped object 
with... [DOC] [TLE] 1. The dark body of Halley's Comet unveiled - ESA Science ... [PAR] Dec 13, 2005 ... "Instead of being spherical like a warm snowball, a comet nucleus is elongated. 
... Soviet Vega spacecraft, ESA's ground control team directed Giotto towards its 
target. ... Giotto unveiled a small, potato-shaped object, with crater-shaped ... 
Another surprise was the extremely dark surface - blacker than coal... [DOC] [TLE] Comets - Astronomy Notes [PAR] Jul 9, 2015 ... We had a foretaste of the Hale-Bopp show when Comet Hyakutake passed close 
to ... Comet nuclei are 0.5 to 20 kilometers in size and are potato-shaped ... The 
spacecraft Giotto launched by the European Space Agency on July 2, ... The 
nucleus is about 2.2 by 2.6 miles in dimension and is darker than... [DOC] [TLE] 12 Comets, Kuiper Belt Objects, and Pluto - MIT [PAR] nucleus of Halley's Comet by 6 flyby spacecraft in 1986, which we discuss in 
detail later, showed that its nucleus was potato-shaped and darker than coal, 
reflecting ..... the P/Halley nucleus has been constructed by adding together 60 
Giotto... [DOC] [TLE] Giotto and VEGA Results on Halley's Comet [PAR] 1986, 96, 3 Giotto and Vega results 125 Giotto and Vega results on Halley's 
comet Nigel ... Suisei passed at a distance of 151 000 km from the comet's 
nucleus on ... Without the bright jets, the nucleus is clearly seen to be a peanut or 
potato shape. ... said "the surface is incredibly dark, blacker than coal, and like 
black velvet. [DOC] [TLE] Bristol's space mission - from Filton to a close encounter with a comet [PAR] Mar 12, 2016 ... Thirty years ago this weekend, Bristol's Giotto spacecraft flew past a comet 90 ... 
close to a comet and obtained the very first images of a comet's nucleus. ..... 
comet was revealed as a 16x8x8 km potato-shaped object that was dark, ... the 
surface and the surface was blacker than the blackest piece of coal. [DOC] [TLE] Genesis Revisited - 04 [PAR] In 1986 Mankind was treated to a once-in-a-lifetime event: the appearance of a 
messenger ... Until then the theory regarding comets was that they crossed the 
heavens in ... in the wrong directionclockwise rather than counterclockwise; 
had similar ..... comet and revealed a mysterious nucleus, its color blacker than 
coal,... [DOC] [TLE] Signs and Portents - Springer [PAR] explanation was that the same comet had reappeared over a period of 75-76 .... 
Bopp's nucleus was estimated to be 40 km (25 mi) in diameter, huge compared... [DOC] [TLE] Comet nucleus | Open Access articles | Open Access journals ... [PAR] This is blacker than coal, and may be caused by a covering of dust. ... spacecraft 
show that the nucleus of 67P/ChuryumovGerasimenko has no ... The potato-
shaped nucleus of Halley's comet (15  8  8 km) contains equal ... The Giotto 
probe found that Comet Halley's nucleus reflects approximately 4% .... 6  Fall 
1986). [DOC] [TLE] Comets facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about ... [PAR] Comets orbit the Sun in elongated elliptical (eccentric, elongated circle) or ... and 
dust that are then swept behind the comet's orbital path (away from the Sun) by 
the .... Observations of Halley's comet by spacecraft in 1986 strongly support this 
model. ... The 1986 studies of Halley's comet revealed the nucleus to be peanut 
or... [DOC] [TLE] Download File - South Sevier High School [PAR] 4 In which direction does a comet tail point? ... travelers reveal about the 
composition of the solar system ..... and

Question: In 1986 the spacecraft Giotto revealed that this comet had a potato-shaped nucleus that was blacker than coal
Answer: Halley\'s Comet