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Thanks in part to the publicity surrounding Comet Hale-Bopp and other heavily hyped celestial events, "light pollution went from a nonissue to something that's on everyone's mind," says Maryann Arrien, a documentary-film maker and an amateur astronomer in Putnam Valley, N.Y. Efforts to curb light pollution are under way from the Australian Outback to Britain's Sherwood Forest, according to the International Dark-Sky Association (I.D.A.), which boasts 3,600 members in 70 countries...
...call their bedrooms "offices." (You can imagine the formative entrepreneurial scolding at the Case house: "Steve, go to your office!") Case's father was a Hawaii power-lawyer; his mom taught at the school her kids attended. Case's older brother Dan was always regarded as the family comet: Princeton, Rhodes scholarship, prestigious investment bank...
...Comet that crashed into the planet Jupiter...
...Bayeux Tapestry, the astonishing embroidered storyboard of the Battle of Hastings, one can see Edward the Confessor of England dying in January 1066 and Harold Godwinson, an earl, enthroned. A woolen comet (Halley's) streams across a linen sky, auguring bad luck. William, who believed the English crown had been promised him, lost no time. Five hundred vessels eventually ferried 7,000 men and their 2,000 mounts. Contrary winds delayed the force on the French side of the English Channel for 15 days--just long enough for Norway to launch its own 300-ship attack on the north...
Stargazers are celebrating and satellites are battening the hatches as the earth makes its annual passage Wednesday and Thursday through the trail of the Tempel-Tuttle comet. Each year on or around November 18, different parts of the world are treated to the Leonids - a show of "shooting stars" (actually meteoroids from the comet's tail). Normally 10 to 20 light up the night sky each hour, but this year the show should be considerably better. Astronomical records dating to the beginning of the millennium show that every 33 years or so the Leonids spike a little as the comet...