Word: tails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iacocca," published in the tail of last year, is currently in its 11th week on the New York Times bestseller list and is selling better than any other book in America...
Wolff's discovery "was like finding the tail to Halley's comet in the middle of Fresh Pond Parkway," said Daniel Pinkham '44, the chairman of the Early Music Performances Department at the New England Conservatory of Music...
...release four canisters containing about 90 lbs. of barium and copper powder, worth $240,000. The powder will swell into a gaseous cloud 100 miles across that will glow pale yellow-green and then a dusky purple; as it expands, the cloud will grow a comet's classic tail...
...previously been believed. Soaring beyond the magnetosphere, the Christmas comet will enable scientists to study the effects of the solar wind on an object without a magnetic field. The West German satellite will release the barium, while the British craft records the progress of the comet, measuring the tail and noting how long it takes for the solar wind to disperse it. The U.S. satellite will track how much barium is able to penetrate the magnetosphere...
...every 76 years, Halley's comet has been an object of awe since what may have been the first reported sighting, by Chinese astronomers in 240 B.C. But when this cosmic snowball of ice and dust-with a nucleus between 3 and 6 miles across and a tail millions of miles long-streaks across the sky in 1986, it will be greeted for the first time by five spacecraft. In the vanguard of an international effort to study the comet, the Soviet Union recently launched two 4.5-ton unmanned space probes laden with cameras and sensors...