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About a year ago, a retired school teacher and amateur astronomer in England sighted an object in the sky traveling toward Earth. He immediatley contacted Brian Marsden, director of the Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams located near the Quad, and within hours, thousands of astronomers across the globe had received descriptions of the sighting...
...Marsden had received reports of a similar sighting from other sources and determined that they were the same object. Astronomers in California photographed the region of suspicion, and, shortly after, they confirmed that the object was a comet--one which had come closer to Earth than any other comet in the past 200 years...
Such adventures, however, are par for the course for Marsden, who for 16 years has been responsible for the world-wide alert of professional and amatcur astronomers about unusual astronomical occurrences...
Besides being one of the most frequently quoted astronomers, Marsden has accumulated a wealth of interesting, on the job experiences...
Elliot, immediately phoned Marsden, who then calculated that a one kilometer gap separated each ring. He also made preliminery findings on the content of the rings. From there it was just a matter of hours before researchers all over the world received news of the discovery through Marsden's telegram network...