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  1. flybynoun

    A flight past a celestial object in order to make observations.

    The upcoming flyby of Halley's comet is expected to provide new information on the nature of the comet.

  2. flybynoun

    A low-level flight of ceremonial nature, typically in connection with an airshow or a military parade.

  3. flybynoun

    A brief visit to an IRC channel

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of flyby in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of flyby in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of flyby in a Sentence

  1. Karl Mitchell:

    Triton is weird, but yet relevantly weird, because of the science we can do there, we know the surface has all these features weve never seen before, which motivates us to want to know How does this world work ? Global color mosaic of Triton, taken in 1989 by Voyager 2 during its flyby of the Neptune system. ( Credit : NASA/JPL/USGS) NEPTUNES MOONS ARE IN A DANCE OF AVOIDANCE, NASA SAYS.

  2. Scott Bolton:

    Every science flyby is an event of discovery, with Jupiter there is always something new. Juno has taught us an important lesson : We need to get up close and personal to a planet to test our theories.

  3. Alan Stern:

    Every single observation that we planned worked as planned, we had a 100 percent successful flyby.

  4. New Horizons:

    Pluto is showing us a diversity of landforms and complexity of processes that rival anything we’ve seen in the solar system, if an artist had painted this Pluto before our flyby, I probably would have called it over the top — but that’s what is actually there.

  5. Paul Chodas:

    The possibilities of collision on any of the three future flyby dates are far too small to be of any real concern.

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