That reminds me...
What is the current status of Giotto? Is it working at all any more? Any more comets in the cards? I recall how seriously blindsided that probe got by Halley's dust in 1986.
I seem to recall it was to make a flyby of Earth in 2014 or 2016. Or was that ICE, the converted solar probe that got the USA to make the first comet flyby in 1985 since we didn't have our own probe for the job at the time.
I presume one reason to grab those probes is to study the comet debris that imbedded itself to their hulls. Would it be possible to somehow grab them in space, considering how fast they are moving?
