Word: skies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only thing remarkable about the discovery is that I found the comet during the very first scan of the sky the first clear night after our summer monsoons ended," Tucker says...
...comet appeared in his electronic search program for Near-Earth Objects, which regularly scans the sky...
...Over the last 20 years, the sky has been pretty (thoroughly) searched by amateurs," Green says. "Not a lot of comets have gone unnoticed...
...percent of comet reports are false alarms, he adds. "Since the Edgar Wilson Award was announced, many more false alarms have come up, to the point that a quarter of reports are not worth checking out, simply because the observer will say that he saw `something streaking across the sky...
...Like most other amateur astronomers, I observe the sky for the pure love and fascination of the universe in which we live," Williams says...