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- noun An
interplanetary flight in which thegravitational attraction of aplanet is used to provideacceleration and a change incourse
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Examples
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However, in a major disappointment – which had deepened the mystery — the Rosetta spacecraft did not experience the flyby anomaly during this swingby of Earth, even though the same spacecraft did experience the anomaly when it flew by Earth 2005, but didn't in 2007.
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This spectacular image of our home planet was captured by the OSIRIS instrument on ESA's Rosetta comet chaser today November 12 at 12:28 GMT from about 633,000 km as the spacecraft approached Earth for the third and final swingby.
Crescent Earth as Seen by Comet Chasing Spacecraft | Universe Today 2009
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"For Rosetta's third and final Earth swingby, there was no anomaly."
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MESSENGER performed a successful Earth swingby a year after launch, on 2 August 2005, with the closest approach at 19:13 UTC at an altitude of 2,347 kilometers 1,458 statute miles over central Mongolia.
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The Mercury-bound MESSENGER spacecraft captured several stunning images of Earth during a gravity assist swingby of its home planet on Aug. 2, 2005.
Boing Boing: September 4, 2005 - September 10, 2005 Archives 2005
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A third and final Earth swingby happened on 13 November, 2009
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After a Venus swingby on September 8, they complete a 368 day outward voyage to finally land on Mars on March 25 1986.
WN.com - Articles related to NASA wants to send you to the moon - Lyrically speaking 2010
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After a Venus swingby on September 8, they complete a 368 day outward voyage to finally land on Mars on March 25 1986.
WN.com - Articles related to NASA wants to send you to the moon - Lyrically speaking 2010
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This was followed by a Mars swingby on 25 February, 2007
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Rosetta made its first Earth swingby on 4 March, 2005
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