Air Comet declined to identify the pilot's name but said he waited until landing to inform Air Comet management about what he saw.
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They collect sediment in Comet Lake to search for diatoms, microorganisms whose skeletal remains allow scientists to reconstruct past climates.
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Who knew when this low-budget comet would return to this corner of the galaxy?
So when one comes in here--I mean, the big effort on this was having the comet come in to meet us.
Instead Argos, Currys and the now defunct Comet group agreed to set up a price comparison website where consumers can easily compare warranties.
As a comet gets closer to the sun, the sun's heat causes these elements to melt, spewing out dust and gas in a brilliant tail.
"Ideally, everything will work, but my guess is we'll have some lessons learned and then we'll have over a year to fix it before we get to Comet Wild-2, " said Stardust mission director Tom Duxbury.
It did a very close encounter with Jupiter in 1974, similar to the comet, you know, that crashed into Jupiter that dramatically changes orbit to an orbit that now it goes through orbit of Mars, through orbit of Jupiter.
"This appears to be this comet's first-ever journey into the inner Solar System and it is expected to pass much closer to the Sun than most comets, " said Tony Farnham of the University of Maryland.
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The square windows on the original Comet jetliner were found to be the primary cause of its disintegration.
In 1910, after weeks of being viewed through telescopes, Halley's Comet was reported visible to the naked eye in Curacao.
He said he had a meeting with Hull council leader Stephen Brady and Comet officials last week to discuss ways of keeping the jobs in Hull.
Appropriately for someone who is best known for having discovered a comet, Halley used tiny comet-like marks to indicate wind direction, an idea that did not catch on.
It follows other national chains - such as Jessops and Comet goods - in succumbing to its online competitors.
That's bad news for the comet, but it could be a boon for sky watchers if the comet is brighter and easier to see.
Stardust is an ambitious but low-cost mission to capture the first samples from a comet, as well as grains of interstellar dust, and return them to Earth.
Luckily, Stardust, a sister mission to Genesis which gathered bits of a comet in the same way, and is due back in 2006, seems to have its switches in the right way up.
Hanwell Snr came to Hanwell like a comet, at long intervals.
Comet, which has now ceased to exist, slashed prices in order to clear its remaining stock in the run-up to Christmas, after it went into administration.
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The collapse of a number of retail chains employing thousands of people over the past month, including Comet and Jessops, are expected to add to jobless numbers in the coming months.
Dan Wagner, a technology entrepreneur who has backed several internet businesses, told the BBC that Comet "was an accident waiting to happen" because successive managements had failed to understand the online world.
It is a phenomenon said to be part of the demise last year of Jessops and Comet, and a survey by agency Foolproof found that 24% of us admitted to doing it in the run-up to last Christmas.
In the run up to Christmas, electricals retailer Comet collapsed and shoe chain Stead and Simpson announced it was closing 90 stores.
It is expected to deliver microscopic samples from Comet Wild-2, which it will swoop near in 2004, as well as interstellar particles captured near the asteroid belt.
The Spitzer observations suggest young planets circling the star are disturbing smaller comet-like bodies, causing them to collide and kick up a huge halo of dust.
Cheng says the comet is likely making its first visit to the inner solar system from the Oort cloud, a reservoir of hundreds of millions of comets encircling our solar system at a distance of about a light year.
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However, both pilots of an Air Comet flight from Lima, Peru, to Lisbon, Portugal, sent a written report on the bright flash they said they saw to Air France, Airbus and the Spanish civil aviation authority, the airline told CNN.
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Which is why, after a comet struck Jupiter in 1994, NASA decided to launch a research programme into Near-Earth Objects.
This is not, it seems, comet Ikeya-Zhang's first visit to the sun.
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