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#1 2005-10-21 06:16:30
- Palomar
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Re: 40 Years Ago: A Great Comet
*Was visible in the daytime. Its tail extended 70 million miles. Interesting astronomy history.
--Cindy
We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...
--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)
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#2 2005-10-21 06:54:28
- SpaceNut
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Re: 40 Years Ago: A Great Comet
Was to young to have paid attention to this but it sounds like it would have been fun to have seen it.
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#3 2005-10-21 15:15:16
- publiusr
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Re: 40 Years Ago: A Great Comet
A year before I was born.
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