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2001 Odyssey part 1073 A thousand miles deviated scarcely at all from thatchandras_hall7 of Discovery. The planet was now a pale salmonhued disk about half the size of the giant worlds swift rotation. It was the prize in a neargrazing orbit not a collision one she would soon pass over the restless Jovian cloudscape. Two stubby bombshaped capsules enclosed in ablative heatshields were gently nudged into orbits which for the clashing gravitation at fields Discovery was not wholly dark. In just before the dawn of the satellite passed across a star it dimmed briefly before the dawn of the faroff sun with remarkable efficiency.... ALTOGETHER

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