Word: meteorically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...look. It survived its journey in remarkably fine style. A dozen or so of its 31,000 heat-shielding tiles had come unstuck during the thunderous ascent. But during its glowing, 2,700° F plunge through the atmosphere, a maneuver that has been likened to riding inside a meteor, not one was lost from the craft's underbelly. Only a few tiles were gouged and chipped, apparently by pebbles and other desert debris kicked up by the wheels after touchdown. After an initial going-over at Edwards Air Force Base, the shuttle will be placed atop a modified...
...were golden, or rather, glowing red. While Wade Lau remained steady in the Crimson cage, the Huskies' George Demetroulakas--and, after 26:24, Mark Davidner--allowed nine goals in two periods. The goals were as varied as they were frequent: a delicate Britz tip in' a patented Mark Fusco meteor; a Mike Watson rebound; a Turner 2-on-1 conversion; a high-wire shorthanded act by Olson, the puck possessed as it burrowed into the net while Olson slid into the boards...
...very first surprise in The Empire Strikes Back comes in the opening credits: the movie is identified as Episode V. Since it is the immediate sequel to the original Star Wars, that opus has been retitled Star Wars: Episode IV, raising a meteor shower of questions. The answers: Lucas has begun his space saga in the middle, and both pictures are the centerpieces of a projected nine-part series. The remaining movies, fore and aft, have not yet been laid out in detail, but Lucas has the framework, a kind of history of what happened in that galaxy long...
...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...