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Halley’s Comet is the only one among 750 different recorded comets which has both a well-known orbit and high gas and dust production rates. The encounter with Halley could take place in March 1986 when it was still close to the Sun (0.89 AU) and therefore highly active and also observable from the Earth which is important for correlating in-situ observations with remote ground-based observations. Furthermore, a mission to Halley requires one of the lowest launch energies of all possible cometary missions.
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Reinhard, R. (1988). The Giotto mission to Halley’s Comet. In: Grewing, M., Praderie, F., Reinhard, R. (eds) Exploration of Halley’s Comet. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82971-0_165
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