\<COLOUR 1> CLOSEST APPROACH: \<COLOUR 0> To Halley, 605 km, March 14, 1986 To Grigg-Skjellerup, 200-300 km, 10 July 1992
\<COLOUR 1> COUNTRY: \<COLOUR 0> Europe
\<COLOUR 1> COMMENTS: \<COLOUR 0> Europe's contribution to the flotilla of five spacecraft launched to Comet Halley; despite being battered by dust, it sends back volumes of data and spectacular images; afterwards it is 'mothballed' until reactivated in February 1990, and goes on to encounter Comet Grigg-Skjellerup successfully in July 1992.