2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/190257This is the writeup of the talk I gave at the Yukawa International Symposium at Kyoto, Japan on June 29, 1999. The talk summarizes the present status of the close limit approximation for colliding black holes.LaTeX with PTP macros, 8 figures, 14 pagesGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmologytext