Word: comets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard astronomer said yesterday that a comet sighted earlier this year by Czech astronomer Lubos Kohoutek is in fact two comets...
This is not the comet, also discovered by Kohoutek and named after him, that disappointed expectant viewers last year, but a pair of smaller comets...
Brian G. Marsden, lecturer on Astronomy and director of the International Astronomical Union, said he realized Kohoutek had discovered two comets when a Japanese observer saw Kohoutek's comet moving in a different direction from that plotted by Kohoutek...
Kohoutek though he had seen one comet twice, but actually had seen two different comets, Marsden said...
Dibbets, 36, is preoccupied with landscape: flat swaths of beach horizon, photographed in nacreous blues and grays, enlarged, tilted and cut together in the form of mountains or-in this show-the curving tail of a comet. They are, in effect, "impossible" earthworks, or sky works, meant solely as configurations on paper: a simplistic idea, but carried out with elegance...