Word: houstonians
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...modest Houstonian with the hinted Texas drawl and the no-bones, straight-arrow demeanor leans forward in his seat. Can he succeed in professional baseball...
...discovered or co-discovered 21 comets, including the famous Shoemaker-Levy, which crashed into Jupiter in 1994. While there are only so many planets or visible comets out there, amateurs are making contributions tracking star movements and lunar cycles and even hunting for supernovas. Larry Mitchell, the Houstonian with the 36-in. telescope, spotted his own supernova in 1994, a find that in turn enabled professional astronomers to measure the distance to that exploding star's home galaxy. "The professionals need that data and don't have the time to do it," says LAAS president Jim Strogen. "They rely...
...making me feel very, very small," griped a reader from Los Angeles. Even more despondent was a Californian from Castro Valley, who called our story "the most depressing thing I have ever read. It seems we are doomed no matter what we do. Pass the Prozac." A Houstonian was "extremely distraught to think of the universe as an infinitely large, charred nothing." But in Cincinnati, Ohio, one man put the event in seasonal perspective: "Why must the universe end? There is no answer. Relax. It's summertime. Have an ice-cold beer...