NASA's Stardust performs practice flyby of asteroid
NASA's Stardust spacecraft successfully completed a close flyby of asteroid Annefrank on Nov. 1, in a rehearsal of procedures the spacecraft will use during its scheduled January 2004 encounter with comet Wild 2. During the flyby, Stardust passed within roughly 3,300 kilometers (2,050 miles) of the...
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