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St. Louis Science Center: Astronomy Fact Of The Day: September 11, 2021

Today in 1985, NASA's International Cometary Explorer (ICE) made its programmed flyby of Comet Giacobini-Zinner. ICE was the first space ...

September 11, 2021

Today in 1985, NASA’s International Cometary Explorer (ICE) made its programmed flyby of Comet Giacobini-Zinner. ICE was the first spacecraft to directly investigate a comet, and after an encounter with Halley’s Comet, became the first to investigate two comets.

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