fly-bys

Many airport book signings are what Ms. Hinckley terms "fly-bys"—opportunities for traveling authors to press the flesh between flights.

Reading Between the Security Lines David Roth 2011

Many airport book signings are what Ms. Hinckley terms "fly-bys"—opportunities for traveling authors to press the flesh between flights.

Reading Between the Security Lines David Roth 2011

It included inner space fly-bys of Earth, Venus and Mercury itself for gravitational assists and dry-runs on the orbital insertion.

US Space Probe Enters Mercury Orbit 2011

Disillusionment set in with the NASA fly-bys and the "Viking" landers of 1976.

Attack of the Classics Tom Shippey 2011

Messenger, launched more than six years ago, entered orbit March 17 after fly-bys of Earth, Venus and Mercury.

NASA craft photographs never-before-seen region of Mercury 2011

In the past, Fifi spent at least six months a year on the road, performing fly-bys at air shows and barely earning her keep through private donations and revenue from B-29 memorabilia sold by the CAF.

Owners of the Last B-29 Hope It Doesn Peter Sanders 2010

It included inner space fly-bys of Earth, Venus and Mercury itself for gravitational assists and dry-runs on the orbital insertion.

US Space Probe Enters Mercury Orbit 2011

These spacecraft were able to spend a great deal of time conducting multiple fly-bys of the satellites, studying the systems and the planets and their atmospheres.

SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Paul Estrada -- From Dust to Planets SETI Institute 2010

The fly-bys provided an opportunity for the George Washington's crew to come up to the flight deck

U.S., South Korea Navies Drill 2010

So it pretty much has to be Mercury, and was thus probably taken by Messenger during one of its past 2 fly-bys of the planet.

Where In The Universe #94 | Universe Today 2010