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Some of the nation's top astrophysicists, including two Harvard affiliates, gathered yesterday at the Museum of Science's Hayden Planetarium for a press conference on the return of Halley's Comet...
...want to see the Comet's nucleus. I've been talking about it for 35 years, and I don't know what it looks like," said Fred L. Whipple, Phillips Professor of Astronomy, Emeritus, of the comet which returns to earthly view every 76 years...
...comet will be most visible in the Boston area between December and January...
...more sophisticated mission would cost. He soon realized, however, that the radio on the diminutive probe was too weak to transmit data from 80 million miles away, the distance of Halley when it is most accessible to visiting earthships. Additional research suggested a less glamorous but more practical alternative: comet Giacobini-Zinner, which orbits the sun once every 6.5 years and could be easily visited when it was about 44 million miles from the earth, well within the satellite's radio range. As an added bonus, a rendezvous with G-Z, as NASA scientists call it, could occur six months...
...interstellar coup: ice, a modest, almost archaic U. S. spacecraft, becomes the first man- made object to encounter a comet...