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...Before moving into the rock 'n' roll genre, the New York native was a leader of the 1960s cinema-verit? movement, and traversed the globe for United Nations and National Geographic documentaries. DIED. FRED WHIPPLE, 97, rocket scientist whose "dirty snowball" theory made it easier to track comets; in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Before Whipple explained the phenomenon in 1950, astronomers thought comets were loose collections of dust and vapor held together by gravity. Whipple argued that the core of a comet consists of ice, ammonia, methane and carbon dioxide, and that its gossamer tail consists of particles that break off from...
...DIED. FRED L. WHIPPLE, 97, pioneering astronomer who was the first to accurately describe comets as masses of rock and ice; in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Whipple's 1950 "dirty snowball" theory was hotly disputed by scientists who believed that comets consisted of dust or gases, but photographs of Halley's comet taken in 1986 proved him right. He also designed the "Whipple shield," a device still used today to protect spacecraft from meteors...
...lost herself in the Weather Channel. Edwards began attending Bible fellowship classes. Over time, the couple pulled themselves together by focusing on how to best remember their son. They settled on a long stone bench for a picnic area at Wade's high school--designed to suggest a comet with its short but bright life. They plowed hundreds of thousands of dollars into a building across the street to provide after-school assistance to any student who needed...
...Edmund Halley, who would give his name to the celebrated comet, proposed a technique for gauging the distance from Earth to the sun by viewing transits from different vantage points. He died in 1742, before his idea could be tried...
...want a weekend off, that’s kind of crappy,” says the surprisingly laid-back Spahr, who has been an avid astronomer since spying a comet at the age of five. “Only two of us [in the world] are tasked specifically with dealing with near-Earth asteroids...