The Nation - News from Sept. 9, 1985
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A series of bursts from two tiny rockets steered a half-ton spacecraft so it will pass through the center of the long tail of the obscure comet Giacobini-Zinner Wednesday morning, National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials said in Greenbelt, Md. The American craft, now called the International Cometary Explorer, or ICE, is assigned to explore Giacobini-Zinner after spending four years monitoring charged gases from the sun. It will be the first intercept of a comet.
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