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In A. J. Dessler's editorial "1986: A vintage year for spacescience" (20 Dec., p. 1327), the seventh sentence of the thirdparagraph should have read, "Then, on Thursday, 13 March, theEuropean probe Giotto will make a daring attempt to pass closeto Halley's nucleus."