[DOC] [TLE] Free Flashcards about ASTRONOMY - StudyStack [PAR] IN 1986, 5 SPACECRAFT RENDEZVOUSED WITH THIS OBJECT, GIOTTO 
CAME WITHIN 400 MILES OF ITS NUCLEUS, HALLEY'S COMET. IN 1972, A... [DOC] [TLE] Giotto (spacecraft) - Wikipedia [PAR] Giotto was a European robotic spacecraft mission from the European Space 
Agency. The spacecraft flew by and studied Halley's Comet and in doing so 
became the first spacecraft to make close up observations of a comet. On 13 
March 1986, the mission succeeded in approaching Halley's nucleus ... Giotto's 
trajectory was adjusted for an Earth flyby and its science instruments... [DOC] [TLE] Giotto | space probe | Britannica.com [PAR] European space probe that came within 596 km (370 miles) of the nucleus of ... of 
the comet during its next periodic swing through the inner solar system in 1986. ... 
Close-up images of the nucleus obtained by Giotto showed a dark potato-shaped 
object with ... Giotto spacecraft at the Intespace test facility, Toulouse, France. [DOC] [TLE] Voyages to the Comets and Asteroids - The Pioneers, The Galileo ... [PAR] Mar 28, 2006 ... The first Earth probes to reach these objects were launched in the 1980s. ... In 
comparison, the first spacecraft to gather data about asteroids were much ... Earth 
Asteroid Rendezvous) to study the asteroids Eros and Mathilde. .... Giotto came 
within 373 miles of the comet and conducted its own close-up... [DOC] [TLE] Asteroids and Comets - Remote Sensing @ CES [PAR] This is explained by assuming the body is so close to the Earth that its motion ... 
Among the Main Belt asteroids the biggest is Ceres (933 km [583 miles]); second 
.... with a short tail); of the estimated 400 Centaur objects greater than 100 km in 
... spacecraft named Giotto, which came within 540 km (336 mi) of the nucleus on
... [DOC] [TLE] T CATCH AC MET: Lf R~lNG - NASA Technical Reports Server ... [PAR] Its arrival in 1986 was. 4 days later than predicted. How close Halley's Comet 
comes to the Sun and. Earth also varies. In 837 A.D. Halley's Comet came to 
within... [DOC] [TLE] space exploration facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ... [PAR] China became the third nation to send a spacecraft to the moon when ... comet in 
1986, and Giotto also came within 125 mi (200 km) of the nucleus of the ... prior to 
that rendezvous the space probe had made flybys of Mars and two asteroids. ... 
the first object made by human beings to move beyond the orbits of the planets. [DOC] [TLE] Comets  theLogBook.com [PAR] The exploration of comets with robotic spacecraft will have to wait until the 1980s. 
... the unmanned Giotto space probe, designed to rendezvous with and observe 
... to the nucleus of Halley's Comet, coming within 400 miles of the comet's core ... 
Comet in 1985 and 1986, the Pioneer Venus Orbiter uses its unique position at... [DOC] [TLE] 999 999% /999 Solar System Debris Keys To Our Origins Chapter ... [PAR] Discuss the characteristics of cometary objects and what they will tell us about ... 
and structure of a typical comet, and explain the formation and appearance of its 
tail. ... take four years and cover nearly 600 million kilometers (400 million miles). 
... Dr. Steve Rapp The Giotto Spacecraft Gave Us Information About The Nucleus
... [DOC] [TLE] To Catch a Comet | DiscoverMagazine.com [PAR] Oct 28, 2003 ... Comets are the most primitive objects in the solar system, preserved samples of 
the raw ... As Stardust heads back to Earth with its flecks of Wild 2, Deep Impact 
will be getting ready ... A flurry of spacecraft, led by a European craft called Giotto, 
flew past Giacobini-Zinner in 1985 and Halley's comet in 1986. [DOC] [TLE] [Space] ESA - Rosetta Comet Chaser - Update Thread [Archivio ... [PAR] http://www.esa.int/export/images/400_rosetta_orbiter_lander_2.jpg .... Rosetta is 
scheduled to be launched on board an Ariane-5 rocket on 26 February ... Comets 
are very interesting objects for scientists, since their composition .... In 1986, 
ESA's Giotto spacecraft performed the closest comet

Question: In 1986 5 spacecraft rendezvoused with this object, Giotto came within 400 miles of its nucleus
Answer: Halley\'s Comet