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On this day in 1985 – September 11th – the International Cometary Explorer (ICE) became the first spacecraft to make a flyby of a comet.

It passed through the plasma tail of comet Giacobini-Zinner within about 7,800 km (4,800 mi) of the nucleus.


Mona Evans
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