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"There could be a long comet's tail of opportunity from an industrial perspective," said Paul MacGregor , London-based director of cyber solutions for Italy's Finmeccanica SpA, which is bidding with Northrop Grumman.
Firms Bid on NATO Cyberwar Daniel Michaels 2011
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As the comet's icy core raced in a tight arc around the Sun, it appeared to leave its tail suspended in the Sun's atmosphere, only for a spectacular new one to develop as Comet Lovejoy began to pull away from the Sun over the following days.
Spacewatch: The bright tailed Christmas comet of the year 2012
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A NASA mission called Deep Impact took photographs of Tempel 1 about six years ago, on the comet's last orbit of the Sun.
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• Temple 1 comet surface may be much more fragile than thought: NASA pictures showed an unexpected layering of the comet's interior, a feature that researchers had not been able to detect earlier.
Darrell Issa was on to something Ed O 2011
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A sunspot revealed the 83 times in her life someone else categorized her as a "straggler," a solar wind showed her the 277 times someone identified her as one of "those people," and the dust of a comet's tail sprinkled the 834 times someone wondered "what's her deal," about Sam but she was already pulling a 5 from the 7s.
Sam and the Planets Josh Cook 2011
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During the Deep Impact mission, scientists actually crashed a probe into Tempel 1 and gathered the material it kicked up in order to study the comet's composition.
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A NASA mission called Deep Impact took photographs of Tempel 1 about six years ago, on the comet's last orbit of the Sun.
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Indeed, the comet's nucleus was only ever a small icy body and observations suggest that it may have disintegrated as it neared perihelion, as others have done before.
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During the Deep Impact mission, scientists actually crashed a probe into Tempel 1 and gathered the material it kicked up in order to study the comet's composition.
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Titled In The Days Of The Comet, the show orbits around the comet's trajectory as a metaphor for timely recurrence, parallel existences, or some kind of harbinger of change, which, of course, leaves the field potentially open to just about everybody.
This week's new exhibitions Robert Clark 2010
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