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...shower occurs each year when Earth passes through the trail of dust that follows the Tempel-Tuttle comet. Dust from the comet, which orbits the Sun once every 33 years, passing close to the Earth, can burn through our atmosphere at speeds of 160,000 miles per hour...
...says it has used $358.7 million of its cash to house more than 380,000 Katrina survivors in shelters and hotels, serve nearly 9.8 million hot meals, and provide mental-health counseling to more than 235,000 people. "One thing the Red Cross has learned since 9/11," says Eugene Tempel, executive director of the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, "is the importance of communicating more openly, more deliberately...
...KM/H Speed of the collision between NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft and the comet Tempel 1?the climax of a six-month, $333 million mission to study the comet's composition $300 MILLION Damages sought by Russian astrologer Marina Bai, who claimed that the celestial crash "ruins the natural balance of forces in the universe" and skews her horoscope predictions
There's no danger that the distant detonation will send the comet tumbling our way. The probe will be like a bug on Tempel 1's windshield, changing its speed by 0.014 in./hr. --With reporting by Dan Cray/Pasadena...
...Tempel-1 orbit...