Word: tails
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...there it was. The sight, however, was decidedly unspectacular. Because it was still too far from the sun to sport a visible tail, and 58 million miles away from earth, the comet looked like little more than a smudged and dusty fingerprint. Or, as Hyron Spinrad, a cosmologist from the University of California, Berkeley, declared, "It's a wimp." Still, everyone was delighted. For the skywatchers, the appearance of Halley's was a once-in-a- lifetime event, and they viewed it as a sort of psychological and even spiritual landmark. Said Astronomer Susan Wyckoff of Arizona State University...
Scientists long ago recognized that every comet has not one but two tails, not always visually distinct, both extending millions of miles by the time the comet has moved close to the sun. They now know that the yellowish, often curved tail is composed of dust particles released during sublimation and swept away from the sun by the pressure of solar radiation. Sunlight reflecting off the tail produces the fiery effect. The second, bluish appendage is called the plasma or ion tail. It is formed when gases from the comet's nucleus become charged by solar radiation and then react...
Eight of Harvard's novice crews took to the water Saturday morning to compete in the annual Tail of the Charles regatta...
Brendon J. Barnicle '89 will drive to The Game Saturday afternoon, after he competes in the Tail of the Charles, the annual freshman crew regatta. "We're bringing down whatever intoxicates. We only drink to excess," says Barnicle, "I don't think we'll have any need to go to those smiddling little New Haven clubs...
Kevin Dulsky's snap flew high over the head of punter Rob Steinberg and began rolling toward the Crimson endzone. Steinberg, who despite a missed field goal had had a marvelous day kicking the ball, turned and gave chase with a bevy of Tigers on his tail...