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WOT: Astronomers orbiting 440 light years away?



yeah, I think mine will be...


>From: "Chris Bennett" <scirocco16vr32@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: desinor@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>CC: Scirocco List <scirocco-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: WOT: Astronomers orbiting 440 light years away?
>Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 17:18:09 -0700
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>LOL  In all of my science fiction stories I started to write... (ahem)  The
>scirocco's are still around in the late 2020's.
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>On 5/7/07, Jean-Claude Désinor <desinor@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>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
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>>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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