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For her, Halley's comet lingers on
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TEMPE, Ariz. For backyard astronomers, Halley's comet is only a
memory. But for Susan Wyckoff, who works with huge telescopes in
Arizona and Chile and a computer system the size of three dishwashers
and a refrigerator, that frozen chunk of cosmic history is not gone
yet.
And neither is a tantalizing mystery about what lies at its
heart.
"We have our hands full for the next three years," says Wyckoff,
physics professor at Arizona State University, Tempe. A leading
Halley's c...
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Halley's Comet is coming.
Saturday Evening Post
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For her, Halley's comet lingers on
Chicago Sun-Times
; TEMPE, Ariz. For backyard astronomers, Halley's comet is only a memory. But for Susan Wyckoff, who works with huge telescopes in Arizona and Chile and a computer system the size of three dishwashers and a refrigerator, that frozen chunk of cosmic history is not gone yet. And neither is a
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Parallel Journeys; Halley's Comet Appearance Inspires Play on 76 Years of Living
The Washington Post
; On a deep, dark night in 1986, actor John Amos took a walk near his house in New Jersey. He wanted to see Halley's comet, the great spectacle that was scheduled to rip through the sky with such brillance that thousands of others were pressing their noses against windows and staring up into the
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Salute to Halley's comet features Steadman designs
Chicago Sun-Times
; Great Britain joins the list of countries celebrating the return of Halley's comet with the release of a four-stamp series on Tuesday. Halley's comet is featured on the stamps illustrated by Ralph Steadman, a political cartoonist. The 17-pence stamp shows a caricature of Edmund Halley (1656-1742),
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Tailing Halley's comet is no small task
Chicago Sun-Times
; ... Magnificent Old Conflagration: Comets and Comet Halley" (U.S. Naval Observatory, $1.25), a thorough analysis of the comet, star maps and a calendar of Halley's comet events. To obtain copies, call the information center at (202) 566-1794 or write Consumer Information ...
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May Offers Up a Rare Double-Comet Show
Albuquerque Journal
; "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." So goes the opening line from Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities." With two comets visiting Earth this month, NEAT and LINEAR, one might inquire as to whether Dickens was penning for our time, as well as his. What have comets brought us in
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Giotto's close visit to another comet. (European Space Agency comet flew within 200 kilometers of Grigg-Skjellerup) (Brief Article)
Science News
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AMOS' "HALLEY'S COMET" VOWS STELLAR PERFORMANCE.(TRIAD/STATE)
The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC)
; Byline: ABE D. JONES JR. Special to the News & Record YANCEYVILLE -- Halley's Comet, observed here Saturday evening, is on its way to Greensboro tonight. It's a comet you ...
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The comet that left us comatose; farewell to Halley's.
U.S. News & World Report
; The comet that left us comatose By mid-April, the reviews were in: Halley's comet, once billed as the astronomical show of a lifetime, was a bust. Though scientists no doubt learned much from the latest visit of the celestial nomad, most observers were disappointed. Just a dull, smudgy, little old
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