Giotto

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke2162b&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2162. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Space Missions, Solar System Missions

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The purpose of the Giotto mission was to study the coma and nucleus of Comet P/Halley at close quarters during its 1986 perihelion passage. It was the EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY's first deep space mission and was named after the famous medieval Italian artist, Giotto di Bondone, who, inspired by the reappearance of COMET HALLEY in 1301, had portrayed the Star of Bethlehem as a golden comet in his fres...

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