wired.com — 1862: American astronomer Lewis Swift discovers the presence of a large comet that will soon bear his name. Three days later, another American astronomer, Horace Tuttle, makes the same sighting. So this heavenly body comes down to us as the Comet Swift-Tuttle.
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profoblivionJul 16, 2007
At first I read it as "Swift-Turtle", and thought it was some kind of joke.
viciousdotorgJul 16, 2007
"I like turtles"
scrimaxincJul 16, 2007
We'll be dead by the time that one gets here, but there's a good chance (45,000 to 1) that most of us are going to be alive for the asteroid Apophis. It's going to miss us by about 20,000 miles on the 13th of April, 2029 (Friday the 13th btw). That's closer than most of our satellites, and it will be the first asteroid that man can view with the naked eye. If it happens to pass @ exactly 18,893 miles, it will pass through a "gravitational keyhole" that will cause it to return to Earth 7 years later and hit us.BOOM....headshot.<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99942_Apophis">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99942_Apophis</a>
floorman56Jul 16, 2007
Some people say it was part of this comet that caused the Tunguska blast. it was nearby at the time
ikesautoJul 16, 2007
Sound like crup to me.
sabachJul 17, 2007
Jaffa kree! Our comet is traveling exactly as planned.
fack0Jul 17, 2007
return 0;
semvhuJul 18, 2007
Why 2012?<a class="user" href="http://www.levity.com/eschaton/Why2012.html">http://www.levity.com/eschaton/Why2012.html</a>