Word: halley
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Wolff's discovery "was like finding the tail to Halley's comet in the middle of Fresh Pond Parkway," said Daniel Pinkham '44, the chairman of the Early Music Performances Department at the New England Conservatory of Music...
Swinging within about 55 million miles of the sun every 76 years, Halley's comet has been an object of awe since what may have been the first reported sighting, by Chinese astronomers in 240 B.C. But when this cosmic snowball of ice and dust-with a nucleus between 3 and 6 miles across and a tail millions of miles long-streaks across the sky in 1986, it will be greeted for the first time by five spacecraft. In the vanguard of an international effort to study the comet, the Soviet Union recently launched two 4.5-ton unmanned space...
...closeup look at Halley's is considered important because it may provide clues about the early solar system. Perhaps more notable still, the participants from all nations have promised to share their results...
...clear from watching Ben Halley Jr. and John Bottoms milk every metaphysical nugget of relevance out of this 1956 script that "Endgame" does not wear well in the postmodern and post-Cold War age. "Endgame," even more than the 1953 "Waiting for Godot," is a product of that decade, innovative for its time, but now hackneyed and cliched three decades after The Big Fear first osmotically seeped its way into the popular psyche...
Scientists complain that as the Administration proposes to pour money into Star Wars and the space station, it is cutting back on unmanned missions. For instance, NASA passed up an opportunity to sail through the tail of Halley's Comet in 1986 (the Soviets and Europeans have scheduled Halley rendezvous). Laments Sagan: "Those space vehicles were very cheap. For just 1% of the cost of Star Wars, you could have a set of spectacular missions from now to the beginning of the next century. The answer to the origins of the universe might be within our grasp. It would...