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...intense shock waves that battered everything on the ground below. Where did the meteorite originate? Slovak Astronomer Lubar Krésak has suggested that it was a chunk of Comet Encke, a periodic visitor to the earth's vicinity that is also the probable source of an annual meteor shower in late June-the time of the Tunguska event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fireball over Siberia: 1908 | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

Natalie Wood, actress (Meteor), on critics: "Anyone who says it doesn't hurt when they zap you is not to be believed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 10, 1979 | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...METEOR...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Star Muck | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

Next to Concorde, Meteor is a paltry piece of goods. The astrophysicists who must save the world from a comet attack include such garden-variety stars as Natalie Wood and Brian Keith (both with Russian accents) and Sean Connery (inexplicably cast as a NASA scientist). Karl Maiden stomps through the film in such a rage that you would think a hotel had refused to honor his traveler's checks. When the comet's "splinters" finally hit earth, wiping out a Swiss ski resort and a drive-in theater in Pisa, all Meteor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Star Muck | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...meteor or Hurricane David. It is the Yale football team. And it is threatening to do something that has not been done in recent memory--keep the Ivy season from going down to the last week before the championship is determined...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Of Meteors and Bears | 11/3/1979 | See Source »

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