Science: Comets

Two comets were visible to the naked eye last week. The fact was of scientific interest but the show was not spectacular. Discovered by a Japanese amateur...

Sport: Comets

To most U. S. newspaper readers, yacht racing last week was as inconsequential as a split infinitive. But for the slow-stirring, world-apart folk on Maryland's...

Science: The Comets Did It

Does the wobbling of the earth on its axis cause reversals of the earth's magnetic field? Have these periodic reversals of the field temporarily allowed more...

Foreign News: Classic Comets

Exactly like comets are Chinese War Lords, here in a halo of gore and glory one day, gone next week into uttermost limbo, then back again after several years...

AVIATION: Comets for Pan Am

In a 300-word announcement, Pan American World Airways this week surprised and dismayed the American aircraft industry. The announcement: Pan Am has ordered...

New Proof That Comets Watered the Earth

By rights, the Earth should not be the cosmic garden it is. In a solar system of planets and moons that are solid rock or mostly gas, shrouded in clouds or...

A New Theory on How Comets Are Born

Familiar comets like Halley and Hale-Bopp make a dramatic entrance when they swing in close to the sun, sending million-mile-long streamers of glowing gas across...

CRAZY ABOUT COMETS

The ancient Chinese thought they were celestial brooms wielded by the gods to sweep the heavens free of evil. In the West they were believed to presage the fall...

Spotted: A Shooting Gallery for Comets

Astronomy is an imprecise business, and much of what skywatchers see depends on what tool they're using to look. In 1610, Galileo became the first person to spot...

Science: Did Comets Kill the Dinosaurs?

In the evening around the Leuschner Observatory in Lafayette, Calif., a few enterprising rattlesnakes slither out to toast themselves on the asphalt parking lot,...