WOT: Astronomers orbiting 440 light years away?

[scirocco16vr32 at gmail.com (Chris Bennett)]

LOL  In all of my science fiction stories I started to write... (ahem)  The
scirocco's are still around in the late 2020's.






On 5/7/07, Jean-Claude D?sinor <desinor@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On the Gripping Hand, it could be one of the atronomer teams which
> took a chance in an FTL  Heechee ship ... (maybe derived from or an
> ancestor of a small car called "The Scirocco" :-)
>
>    Jean-Claude
>    84 8v
>
> Chris Bennett wrote:
> > Ok not really.
> >
> > But if you read the quote below...
> >
> > "The gas giant, estimated to be eight times the mass of Jupiter, was
> > found
> > by a team of astronomers orbiting a beast of a star located about 440
> > light
> > years away in the constellation Hercules."
> >
> > I guess it's missing a comma somewhere maybe before "orbiting".  You
> > have to
> > reread it a couple of times before it makes sense.  When I first read
> > it I
> > was thinking it was a science fiction spoof or something.  Or if it
> > wasn't
> > at the very least the writer shoulda revealed what it was he was
> smoking.
> >
> > Full story below if any gives a crap.  I thought it was mildly humourous
> > either way.
> >
> >
> >
> http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/05/07/fatplanet_spa.html?category=space&guid=20070507093000&dcitc=w19-502-ak-0000
> >
>
>


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