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Bright comet bopping by Earth
The Associated Press
It was love at first sight.
As soon as astronomers spotted their intended across 650 million miles of interplanetary space, they knew the encounter would be an affair to remember. Even two years before its closest approach to Earth, Comet Hale-Bopp shone brightly in the frosty darkness of the outer solar system.
Now, 19 months after its discovery, Hale-Bopp is close enough that, even without a telescope, early risers can see it hovering on the eastern horizon just before dawn. By April, it should be prominent just after sunset on the northwestern horizon.
"It will be a beautiful and splendid object," said Michael Mumma,
an astronomer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "It's going to be quite a good show."
Understanding the composition of comets could reveal clues about the origin of Earth and the other planets because comets are thought to be pristine remnants from the solar system's earliest days.
"The comets are leftover material," said Anita Cochran, an astronomer at the University of Texas at Austin. "The comet as we see it today is indicative of the conditions then, without having undergone earthquakes and erosion and the other things that are common on the big planets."
In the wee hours of July 23, 1995,
both Alan Hale of the Southwest
Hale-Bopp Comet
Discovered July 25,1995 by Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp
distance of 123 million miles
Most prominent in April and best viewed just after sunset on the northwestern horizon
The comet will pass Earth at a distance of 123 million miles.
Hale-Bopp is 25 miles in diameter (Halley's comet is only a quarter of that size)
Hale-Bopp last passed through this solar system 4,000 years ago
Institute for Space Research in Cloudcroft, N.M., and Thomas Bopp, an amateur astronomer from Glendale, Ariz., reported seeing a fuzzy spot in the constellation.
tion Sagittarius.
Within hours, the International Astronomical Union had announced the existence of the comet — and named it for its two discoverers.
Astronomers expect the comet to be as bright as the brightest stars by late March, when Hale-Bopp will pass Earth at a distance of 123 million miles.
"Hale-Bopp has just been a monster in terms of its brightness ever since its discovery," said Harold Weaver, a research scientist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Weaver and several colleagues estimated Hale-Bopp's diameter at 25 miles. Halley's comet, which last passed this way in 1986, is only a quarter of that size.
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Socks symbolize couple's love, faith
Even the homeless can show affection
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Some love-struck folks use flowers, gifts or tender words to show their affection. LaToyya West showed her love for Raymond Robinson by letting him wear her socks.
The Associated Press
Among the homeless, there are few other acts that can be seen as selfless.
"You got to have socks out there, so he knew he was special to me," said West.27.
The two talked about their meeting and their meaning to each other Saturday, which was their wedding day. Pizza, soup and wedding cake were served at Grand Avenue Temple United Methodist Church.
The Rev. Jacquelyn Moore said that she had never presided over a wedding in which neither the bride nor the bridegroom had a permanent address.
"There's no guarantee with any marriage," Moore said. "It's always a struggle — but Raymond and LaToyya have already struggled together and that may help them."
"He's every woman's dream of a man," West said. "He's not a '90s man. He's an old-fashioned, do-for-bish-woman man."
Robinson said that God brought West to him.
"She shows me her love and her faith," Robinson said. "And she keeps me straight."
Rules prohibit man from buying old trees
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Mitch Friedman thought he'd finally beaten the Forest Service when he showed up at a U.S. timber auction to buy centuries-old trees.
An ardent environmentalist, Friedman has spent most of two decades on the front lines protesting logging in national forests and organizing lawsuits and administrative appeals to block clear cuts.
This time, he decided on a new plan: Buy the trees for $15,000 and set them aside in his own little public forest reserve.
He never dreamed that Forest Service rules wouldn't allow it.
Ecosystem Alliance in Bellingham, Wash. "Right now, our public forests are being managed like an exclusive club."
Regulations prohibit the sale of the publicly owned timber to anyone who does not intend to cut the trees. Friedman has petitioned the Agriculture Department to repeal the prohibition on private sales.
The Forest Service cited the rule in rejecting Friedman's top bid — $15,000 — for the Thunder Mountain timber parcel in north-central Washington's Okanogan National Forest.
Joining Friedman in his fight are the Southwest Center for Biodiversity, which tried to buy national-forest trees in Arizona last year, and the Oregon Natural Resources Council.
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The Associated Press
Patrons complain as expectant moms snag front spots
ROSWELL, Ga. — Perched over a pair of parking spaces, the smiling stork on the shiny new sign offers a surprise for drivers who think they've just scored a prime
spot near the supermarket door: "New and expectant moms only."
Take another lap around the parking lot, pal — spots for mothers are multiplying from Georgia to Texas and Arkansas to Illinois.
This feathered figure is the guardian of the latest in parking privilege, but not everyone is necessarily feeling generous about it.
easily telling about the elderly, dissenters ask. Or people with small children?
Some grocery stores in the Harris Teeter chain, based in North Carolina, offered the new mom spots more than a year ago and now reserve them for burdened souls in general, labeled loosely as assisted parking spots.
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