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Word: gia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...earth's favorite playmates in the lonely vastness of space is the Gia-cobini-Zinner comet, which sweeps around the sun in a lopsided orbit once every six and a half years. In 1933, two sweeps ago, the earth passed within 500,000 miles of the place where the comet had been 80 days before. The result: a gaudy shower of meteors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Starry Shower | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

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