“Then back to places! We continue the approach. Telemetry, was there any change in course?”
“Negative. Both courses are stable: neither the comet nor the Hugo deviated.”
“All right, go for it! T minus 7 to the rendezvous. Let’s get the big fish!”
Greg’s voice was replaced by the click of the keyboard as everyone turned back to their task. Only Sarah’s commentary went on the public channel:
“What you’ve just seen a few minutes ago has already been experienced in the history of comet research. The most famous event was in 1993, when the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 exploded because of the gravitational force of Jupiter. It fell into the gas giant, and the predecessor of the Giordano Space Telescope, the Hubble, recorded it. You can see on the left side . . .”
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The royal ships dropped out of
