Word: halley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When Halley's comet last appeared in 1910, blazing a brilliant trail across the skies, it was greeted with a mixture of awe, hysteria and hoopla. Some of the awe remains, and thanks in part to British Airways, some of the hoopla will be recaptured when the comet approaches earth again. Last week the airline announced that for (pounds)30, or about $42, it is offering the "flight of a lifetime" on four moonless nights in December and January...
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...
...funny thing happened on the way to Halley's comet last week. As an armada of Soviet, Japanese and European space probes hurtled through the cosmos toward their heralded meetings with the fabled comet next March, they were upstaged by a modest and almost archaic Ameri can spacecraft. The International Cometary Explorer whipped through the tail of an obscure apparition called Giacobini-Zinner, thereby becoming the first man-made object to encounter a comet...
...cometary tail to jubilant scientists tuned in at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. ICE's coup enabled American astronomers and space scientists to recover some of the patriotic and professional pride that was dashed in 1981 when Washington budget slashers vetoed a U.S. mission to Halley. "We wanted to make sure the U.S. didn't take a backseat to anyone," says NASA Spokesman James Elliott, "and we've done...
Farquhar's first thought was that ISEE-3 could be directed toward Halley, providing a drastically cheaper alternative to the more than $350 million that a new and 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...