Sentences with phrase «comet connection to earth»
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Because the Explorer was «very tenuously held by Earth,» says Farquhar, it was relatively easy to break that connection in 1982 and send the craft off on an unplanned mission — to fly through the tail of the comet Giacobini - Zinner.
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Re-naming the «Sun - Earth connection» wasn't just a marketing ploy, it signaled an authentic shift in thinking about stars and their relationships to planets, moons, asteroids and comets.
What's it all about: When the world learns that a comet will end life on Earth, it triggers the actions of an unusual group of characters that don't seem to have any connection to each other.