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Daily Archives: 28 Oct 07
Dramatic Comet Outburst Could Last Weeks
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“A comet that suddenly brightened earlier this week has astronomers around the globe fascinated. And the show could go on for some time.
Comet Holmes, discovered in 1892, had in recent years been visible only through telescopes until a dramatic outburst made it visible to the naked eye. In fewer than 24 hours, it brightened by a factor of nearly 400,000.
It has now brightened by a factor of a million times what it was before the outburst, a change “absolutely unprecedented in the annals of cometary astronomy,” said Joe Rao, SPACE.com‘s Skywatching Columnist.
The comet is now rivaling some of the brighter stars in the sky.
Anyone with a map should be able to spot it now.” (SPACE.com)
Identical twins reunited after 35 years
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They had been separated at birth to pursue study of ‘nature vs. nurture’. The child psychiatrist who orchestrated the study was without remorse when the twins confronted him. He had been willingly aided by the adoption agency handling their placements, whose psychological consultant felt that it was unhealthy for identical twins to be raised together. Aware that his study would be criticized, the author had locked away the report in the Yale University archives, not to be opened for a century. (Telegraph.UK)
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