The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 52, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 12, 1973 Page: 28 of 34
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26 THE BAYTOWN SUN Wednesday, December 12,1973
through space,” Whipple comet Kohoutek speeding to-
observes. ward us now is on collision
Some Soviet scientists course, says Brian Marsden of
believe that a comet weighing the Sim hsoman Observatory,
perhaps one million tons closest any comet has
struck Siberia in 1908, causing aver. “me to earth-^side
a blast that felled trees for 30 £r°m ,the ,P°sf1 ^ of ft
miles in all directions, and Siberian mcident was 1%
knocking people 100 miles million mdes, he says; In 1928,
away offtheir feet. on« .cornet, «™e within four
million miles, and a number
Others, however, think a me- have been within 10 million to
tedrite or some other 20 million. Kohoutek will stay a
phenomenon did all the respectable 75 million miles
come by very often, consul- Halley’s comet and Encke,
ering that astronomers think Marsden says,
there are 100 billion of them, or Halley’s comet comes
even more, roaming in a shell around about every 76 years, is
at the outer fringes of the solar due back in 1986, and very
system. likely the early and assiduous
Astronomers with their tele- sky watchers in China may
scopes pick up a good number, have observed Halley’s comet
but it is only once every few in 467 B.C., or before, and
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP)
- Comets have been getting a
NASA now, perhaps in a few hydrogen cloud around the
years. It could resolve many of comet. They can, also, witness
the mysteries about comets, sudden changes in the shape of
Around the world, telescopes
on the ground will peek at spec“
comet Kohoutek for the next Mariner 10, now en route to
few months. Venus and later to Mercury,
Out in space, three astrcv will be able to take pictures
nauts aboard Skylab likely will from a ?‘ff^ent angle than
have the most spectacular ^rom eart*1. Stereoscopic corn-
view, high above the earth’s parison of the two views would
interfering blanket of air. They give) for the first time, a three-
will use an array of in- ,. , . , . ..
stmments inolurtins a snerial dimensional picture of the
named, detected it last March,
nine months ago when it was
still nearly half a billion miles
away, but big enough to show
up on a powerful telescope.
No comet that big and
bright, heading for close
passage of the sun, had ever
been spotted so early.
Very importantly, this pro-
vided a fair amount of “lead”
time to plan for detailed exam-
ination of the comet. Enough
that NASA, the National Aero-
tration, set up a special coordi-
nating “Operation Kohoutek”
under direction of Stephen Ma-
ran, astronomer at the God-
dard Space Flight Center.
There was not enough time
to fit out a special space probe
that could intercept the head or
tail of the comet, and make
clos%up studies, or even seize
some comet material, an idea
They’ve long been regarded
popularly as heralds of death
and disaster, plagues, crop
failure, earthquakes and
similar unmerriments.
Look to an article in Har-
per’s Weekly magazine 116
years ago, on June 6,1857:
There were predictions, it
that Whipple had proposed
more than a decade ago.
But just such a plan to go to a
nihilate the earth. It also took damage.
from our turf.
shape of the comet.
And visible comets do not some many more times, like astronomer for whom it is nautics and Space Adminis- comet “ being considered by ultraviolet camera to see the
salesmen
of clothing,” and that “a
comefary life insurance
company—premiums payable
in advance^has been
created.”
A comet in 1668 was blamed
for a .lethal epidemic among
cats in Westphalia, Germany,
the magazine went on,' and a
comet in 1665 was pegged as
causing a great epidemic in
London that same year but
with “ho one, apparently, car-
ing to settle the question why
the malign influence of the
comet should fall only upon
London, not extending even to
the neighboring towns and vil-
lages.”
And “a comet appeared in
the year 590 to which was at-
tributed a fearful epidemic
which prevaifedjn that year, in
the paroxysms of which people
were seized with un-
controllable fits of sneezing,
generally resulting in death.
When anyone about this time
sneezed, it became; (mftomary
to say ‘God Mess you!,’ from
which, probably, proceeded a
similar custom to this day
prevalent upon the continent of
Europe.”
“A comet which appeared in’
March 1402," Harper’s contin-
ued, "was stated by the
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