Word: planetsized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That should soon change. Two weeks ago, a space probe called NEAR was launched from the Kennedy Space Center on a trajectory that will carry it to within 20 miles of Eros, where it will remain in orbit for a year of intensive study. The mission should give astronomers important...
I AM CONVINCED THAT NO HUMANS EXIST on other planets. God simply could not make the same mistake twice. HENRY FELD Los Angeles
IT IS PRESUMPTUOUS TO ASSUME THAT this speck in the universe we inhabit should be the only one with intelligent life on it [SPACE, Feb. 5]. Among the many billions of heavenly bodies, there have to be a large number on which life exists, and many on which beings may...
Our stature has slowly been shrinking. At one time, people thought the planets revolved around them. Now, all these dreams of importance having been shattered, while we are feeling so small in the vast universe, we find that not even our minds are that special. And while our minds are...
Yet the first sentence of this fine, brooding novel expresses not hate but loss: "My mother died at the moment I was born, and so for my whole life there was nothing standing between myself and eternity; at my back was always a bleak, black wind." The narrator and title...