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This week's Science story explores the vibrations in inner as well as outer space as Comet Kohoutek enters earth's solar system. "This is a sociohysteric happening," notes Associate Editor Frederic Golden, who wrote the story. "Astronomers are running around trying to get their equipment ready for observations, and the rest of us are excited by dramatic notions of what comets mean, especially during times of crisis." A former correspondent and editor for the Associated Press, Golden began writing science stories for TIME in the same way that Czech-born Astronomer Lubos Kohoutek discovered his celestial namesake...
...FIRST complete biography of Herbert George Wells comes at no better time. With the comet Kohoutek whispering across the winter skies, and new visions of apocalypse conveniently centering themselves around its strange apparition, science is experiencing one of its cyclical, popular questionings. While Kohoutek harkens back to one of Wells's more obscure works, In The Days of The Comet, another more recent scientific popularization revives what was a major issue in Wells's life and works. That is the great debate of nature vs. nurture, genetics vs. environment, Shockley vs. the sane world. For, throughout Wells's works, there...
Kohoutek is named for its discoverer, Lubes Kohoutek. The Czech astronomer spotted the comet last March, while observing at West Germany's Hamburg Observatory...
Whipple said that by viewing Kohoutek, he hopes to confirm his "dirty snowball" theory, which holds that the comet's nucleus is composed of dust particles imbedded in the ices of simple molecules of water, methane and ammonia...
...said that dust pollution and light pollution will make observation of the comet in the city of Boston "futile." Celestial enthusiasts should go to the west of the city to see Kohoutek under optimum conditions, Whipple said...