Word: dust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young boy and girl in Edwardian England. A Room with a View is that exploration, Forster's sketch of love and anguish sparked on the Tuscan hills and resolved in the English countryside. In the new screen version by the Ismail Merchant-James Ivory team (Heat and Dust, The Bostonians), we are treated to a respectful and intimate adaptation of Forster's touching novel...
When the clouds--and the dust--finally cleared, the Engineers (now 1-1) had nabbed a 6-1 victory, and handed the listless Crimson (2-1) its first loss of the season...
...Astronomer Fred Whipple, 79, another American who journeyed to Moscow, the image was further confirmation of his 1950 "dirty snowball" theory, which holds that a comet has a small, solid core of ice and dust. "The fact that the comet's image came out with a bright center shows we were seeing the nucleus," he said. "If that were simply dust, we wouldn't see the irregularities...
Early evaluation of data from Vega 1 showed that the craft encountered less dust than expected as it approached the comet. But Physicist John Simpson of the University of Chicago, who designed the only American instrument -- a dust detector -- aboard Vega, noted that as the spacecraft departed, it passed through a "huge spike of dust" with particles about the size of those in cigarette smoke. Simpson and other scientists interpreted the spike as a burst of dust and gas erupting from the surface of the nucleus. Other Vega instruments seemed to show that the icy cometary surface was being evaporated...
...week's end scientists were worried about Giotto's chances. As they continued to interpret Vega 1's data, they discovered that its passage through the dust jet had damaged 45% of the craft's solar panels. During Giotto's much closer encounter with the comet, the European probe was bound to pass through far thicker clouds of dust on what some scientists characterized as a "kamikaze mission...