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Mar 1986

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986esasp1066...25r&link_type=abstract

ESA Spec. Publ., ESA SP-1066, p. 25 - 48

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Comet 1910 Ii Halley, Comets:Space Instrumentation, Comets:Space Research, Space Instrumentation:Comets, Space Research:Comets

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ESA's Giotto Mission to Halley's comet is a fast flyby at 00 UT on 14 March 1986, about four weeks after the comet's perihelion passage, when it will have been at its most active. The scientific payload is made up of ten experiments with a total mass of approximately 60 kg: a camera for imaging the comet nucleus, three mass spectrometers for analysing the elemental and isotopic composition of the cometary dust and gas environment, various dust impact detectors, a photopolarimeter for measuring the coma's brightness, and a set of plasma instruments for studying the solar-wind/comet interaction. The Giotto spacecraft will be targetted to pass the nucleus at a distance of 500 km on the sunward side.

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