Giotto’s brief encounter, Twenty years ago |
Giotto’s brief encounter, Twenty years ago |
Mar 10 2006, 09:20 AM
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Giotto’s brief encounter
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMSZ0NVGJE_index_0.html Twenty years ago, in the night between 13 and 14 March 1986, ESA’s Giotto spacecraft encountered Comet Halley. |
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Nov 29 2021, 07:02 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1649 Joined: 5-March 05 From: Boulder, CO Member No.: 184 |
Nice to see an attempt to make a new map with a cylindrical projection, if that is useful for such an elongated comet nucleus. How are the coordinates defined? Perhaps with some additional effort it would look more presentable.
-------------------- Steve [ my home page and planetary maps page ]
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