Word: halley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Halley 's heavenly body returns
...become the first to sight one of history's most celebrated objects. Last week a Caltech team led by British Graduate Student David C. Jewitt, 24, and Staff Astronomer G. Edward Danielson, 43, won the cosmic sweepstakes. Using Palomar Observatory's 200-in. telescope, they spotted Halley's comet as a faint moving dot in the constellation Canis Minor. The comet has not been seen since 1911. A year earlier, its fiery appearance caused a rash of doomsday forecasts and end-of-the-world parties...
...exploration of the solar system, however, J.P.L.'s future has seemed cloudy lately. Almost immediately after the Reagan Administration took office, it canceled a joint effort with the Europeans to survey the sun's unexplored polar regions. The U.S. also dropped out of the race to intercept Halley's comet, slated to return in early 1986, leaving direct examination of this primordial chunk of matter to the Soviets, Europeans and Japanese. It placed on hold a plan to put a remote radar-mapping satellite in orbit around Venus, and has delayed until at least 1986 a complex...
...continued cooperation between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. (The U.S. provided radar maps of the Venus surface and helped the Soviets select the landing sites.) In 1985 another pair of Soviet probes will be dropped into the Venusian atmosphere while their mother ship hurtles on toward a rendezvous with Halley's comet. The U.S., meanwhile, is passing up the chance to intercept that rare heavenly visitor, and its plans for another visit to Venus remain in limbo...
...offense, the freshmen should play a particularly large role. One of the team's alltime leading scores, senior Norm Forbush, is back, and will be joined by Yardlings Rob Halley and Steve Bartenfelder. Halley adds quickness and Bartenfelder complements Halley's speed with his brute strength...