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English writers may have claimed St. Valentine's Day for the Christians when Geoffrey Chaucer linked the day to a medieval myth of mating birds. "For this was on Seynt Valentynes Day, /Whan every fould cometh there to chese his make," Chauser wrote in his "Parliament of Fowls." Apparently, the birds come together on St. Valentine's Day to celebrate the beauty of spring by enjoying their new mates. This was not such a happy occassion for the poet, who complains in the poem about swarms of mating birds, who tormented him with their noise and crowded the poor poet...
...inhospitable as both these worlds seem, their discovery, announced two weeks ago by San Francisco State University astronomers Geoffrey Marcy and Paul Butler, has thrown an almost wholly speculative area of study solidly into the realm of tangible fact. Despite years of searching with the most powerful telescopes, despite decades of listening for the faint crackle of radio signals from distant civilizations, despite endless theorizing about how life might or might not arise, nobody had ever found concrete evidence to suggest that our planet, our civilization, our life-forms were anything but unique in the cosmos...
...TIME GEOFFREY MARCY stepped up to the microphone, his audience could barely conceal its anticipation. For days, rumors had been circulating around the American Astronomical Society meeting in San Antonio, Texas, that Marcy and his colleague Paul Butler had something big. Then he dropped his bombshell. "We're here," said Marcy, "to announce the discovery of two new planets, orbiting stars similar to the sun." It wasn't the first time such planets have been found. But what made this discovery so exciting was that at least one of the new worlds, about eight times the size of Jupiter...
Other winners included Geoffrey C. Rapp, Pejman Razavilar, Kelly A. Register, Adina H. Rosenbaum, Natalka R. Roshak, Bret R. Rutherford, Brian J. Saccente, David H. Sachs, Jesse A. Sage, Nishit Saran Nathan K. Scales, Naomi K. Seiler, Jinsesh N. Shah, Danielle E. Sherrod, Merav Shohet, Shirin A. Sinnar, Sonja B. Starr, Rebecca E. Stich, Ellen H. Takata, Connie W. Tang, Gilbert H. Tang, Xiomeng Tong, Heidi S. Towne, Omri Traub, Miriam Udel, Katherine Unterman, Ellis M. Verosub, Jason W. Veysey, David M. Weld, Bradley L. Whitman, Benjamin Wilkinson, Hong Yu, Jong H. Yun, Shouyee Yung, Ian G. Zacharia and William...
...After the discovery of 51 Pegasi, everyone wondered if it was a freak, a one-in-a-million observation. The answer is no. Planets aren't rare after all." --San Francisco State University astronomer Dr. Geoffrey W. Marcy after announcing his identification, with Dr. Paul Butler, of two new planets in a far off galaxy which seem to confirm the plebian quality of our own solar system...