Word: perihelion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ikeya-Seki has been visible in the southeastern sky just before sunrise each morning. It has been moving toward the sun at the rate of about 2° a day. It will reach perihelion (closest point to the sun) shortly after midnight (E.D.T.) on Oct. 21; during hours of darkness, it may be visible to the naked eye. Though the comet's tail will show up most clearly on the West Coast, Easterners may also be able to see it during the night. Then, shortly before dawn on the East Coast, the head of the comet should appear above...
...trade, which produces some books that give genuine inspiration as well as some of the most enervating and profitable books known to publishing, purveys non-religion in endless series of similarly named volumes, all of them containing at least one poem by Joyce Kilmer. This curious subindustry reached its perihelion a couple of years ago with Presbyterian Minister Franklin Loehr's The Power of Prayer on Plants...