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Cases of historical encounters with comets
November 4, 2010 will forever be noted in the history textbooks of the country as the day a spacecraft approached the comet Hartley 2 within a distance of 700 km.
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NASA explores the solar system through remnants on Comets
On November 4, 2010, NASA's EPOXI spacecraft, about 450 miles from Comet Hartley 2. This is a small Comet with a diameter of less than a mile, and needs about six and a…