| 11. | Meanwhile, the astronauts prepared for another close pass of the runaway satellite and the miles of tether suspended below it.
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| 12. | On August 3, 2026, comet Tempel 2 is expected to have another close pass within about 0.41 AU of Earth.
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| 13. | NASA plans to launch two robot probes to Mars every 26 months, when Mars makes its cyclical close pass by Earth.
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| 14. | They are also massive, so it requires a close pass by another major object to force them into highly eccentric orbits.
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| 15. | Mars glowed a pale orange in a moonless night sky Wednesday, making its closest pass to the Earth in 60, 000 years.
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| 16. | The pictures were taken late Tuesday and early Wednesday as the planet made its closest pass by Earth in 60, 000 years.
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| 17. | American astronomers were jubilant over the close pass, which enabled the Hubble Space Telescope to get dramatic pictures of the planet's surface.
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| 18. | The probe's close pass during 36 hours Monday and Tuesday produced images transmitted to NASA that did little more than whet experts'appetites.
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| 19. | U . S . stocks fell from records, yanking the Dow Jones Industrial Average back from its closest pass yet at 8000.
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| 20. | :The first question is whether you want true star-impacts-star collision or merely a close pass with gravitational effects on the two solar systems.
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