Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.16 $; site faust.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!cca!faust!schrei From: schrei@faust.UUCP Newsgroups: net.astro Subject: The comet that fascinates Message-ID: <2700006@faust.UUCP> Date: Tue, 23-Jul-85 16:35:00 EDT Article-I.D.: faust.2700006 Posted: Tue Jul 23 16:35:00 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 00:26:48 EDT Lines: 16 Nf-ID: #N:faust:2700006:000:579 Nf-From: faust!schrei Jul 23 16:35:00 1985 > >Both of Japan's spacecraft will make their closest approaches to Halley >in early March of 1986 -- around the same time as the Soviet and >European Space Agency plan to have their missions in the comet's >vicinity. > >The Halley missions planned by Japan are major steps for that country's >space program -- and an additional source of scientific data on the >comet that fascinates people the world over. > >Script by Diana Hadley. >(c) Copyright 1984, 1985 McDonald Observatory, University of Texas at Austin Fascinates people the world over -- except in the White House.