They can be influenced by other objects and the icy ones can off-gas propulsively.

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They also give a spacecraft the ability to land propulsively, like you see in movies.

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For that reason alone, this propulsively single-minded attack on climate-change deniers by Craig Scott Rosebraugh may just be the feel-good documentary of the year.

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