Because the mission was a flyby, the mother spacecraft could not wait around for the dust to clear.
The nature of the New Horizons mission did not permit any wiggle room, any delays, any do-overs, because it was a flyby.
It's a flyby, at Mach 42, and Stern must wring as much out of the short-lived encounter as possible.
The flyby "should be a very interesting case," he says.
Granted, the 14 July rendezvous is going to be just a flyby.
During the Galileo flyby there seemed to be an anticorrelation in brightness between the violet and near-infrared images (Belton et al. 1991), but this anticorrelation was not apparent during the MESSENGER flyby Peralta et al. (2017).
"It was like it was doing a flyby, like in the movie 'Top Gun,' " said the man, Barry Kennedy, 52, of Neptune, N.J., near Wall Township.
The limited fuel reserves now on Deep Impact mean it cannot be manoeuvred to flyby a third comet, however.
Another was a comet rendezvous and an asteroid flyby.
There's a problem with the one-off flyby of a planet or an asteroid, and that is you can't go back and do it again - obviously!
