Word: holte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Returning Players to Watch: Solomon Johnson (TB), Greg Abbruzzese (TB), Bob Paschall (MG), Mike Holt (CB), Matt Less (TE), Matt Pollard...
Returning Players to Watch: Solomon Johnson (TB), Greg Abbruzzese (TB), Bob Paschall (MG), Mike Holt (CB), Matt Less (TE), Matt Pollard...
...asteroid, called 1989FC in accord with the official numbering system of the International Astronomical Union, was first detected by Henry Holt, an adjunct professor of geology at Northern Arizona University. That was in late March, after it was already moving safely away from earth. Holt spotted the speeding intruder in photographs taken through an 18-in. telescope at the Palomar Observatory in Southern California, during a systematic search for asteroids passing close by, which scientists call earth grazers. Holt figures that 1989FC may be in Hermes' league, but other astronomers dispute the claim, saying the new asteroid may be only...
...days to do so, instead of 365. When the asteroid passes by again next April, it will probably be at a safer distance from the earth. The next time earthlings need to worry, says astronomer Brian Marsden of the Harvard-Smithsonian Observatory, who calculated the orbit based on Holt's observations, is 2015. "If our figures are correct," he says, "the asteroid will have made 25 orbits to earth's 26, and we will meet again...
...Henry Holt; 454 pages...