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What is a flyby?

What is a flyby? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A flight past a celestial object in order to make observations.
  2. (US) A low-level flight of ceremonial nature, typically in connection with an airshow or a military parade.
  3. A brief visit.
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Keller looked back at the ceremonial bandstand to see Admiral Warren saluting the flyby.
Shortly after the Hermes flyby of October 1937, the American Museum of Natural History created a spine-tingling exhibit for public display.
A giant impact crater the size of Iowa was spotted on Saturn's moon Titan by NASA's Cassini radar instrument during Tuesday's Titan flyby.
The user can listen to a jet aircraft flyby either as it would sound outdoors or indoors for comparison of up to 5 scenarios.
Prior to the flyby of the New Horizons spacecraft in 2015, all information about this distant system had come from observations made from Earth.
Data from the 1989 Voyager 2 flyby showed that the mass of Neptune had been inaccurately measured.

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