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File:Comet Halley.jpg

Description Photo No. AC86-0720-2 – Taken from Kuiper Airborne Observatory, C141 aircraft April 8/9, 1986, New Zealand Expedition, Halley's Comet crossing Milky Way. Disconnection of ion tail. Photo taken with equipment designed, mounted on the headring and operated by the Charleston (South Carolina) County School District CAN DO Project.
Date 1986 April 8/9
Source http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2005/comets1.html
Author Kuiper Airborne Observatory, C141 aircraft April 8/9, 1986, New Zealand Expedition
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