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The two massive objects floating in space looked very much like deeply pitted pieces of rock. The larger one, roughly pear-shaped and about a quarter of a mile in its greatest dimension, was actually that -- a huge hunk of rock. The smaller -- _much_ smaller -- of the two was not what it appeared to be. It was a phony. Anyone who had been able to conduct a very close personal inspection of it would have recognized it for what it was -- a camouflaged spaceboat.
The camouflaged spaceboat was on a near-collision course with reference to the larger mass, although their relative velocities were not great.