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NASA's Deep Space 1 probe, running on fumes after a three-year mission to test 12 advanced technologies with an asteroid flyby, will try for a last hurrah Sept. 22 with a very close approach to the comet Borelly. The 820-lb. spacecraft is targeted to plunge into the comet's coma and attempt to pass...
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