- Comets, Halley's comet, Komet, Comets.
Explores the fascinating realm of comets answering questions raised by their appearance and delving into the superstitions surrounding them.
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Earnest, classical in form, warm and cool.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
- First published
- 1985
- Pages
- 398
- Publisher
- Ayrinti Yayinlari, Random House, Ballantine Books
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- French, Portuguese, English
- ISBN
- 9780718126315
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“These are the snows of yesteryear, the pristine remmants of the origin of the solar system, waiting frozen in the interstellar dark.”
Carl Sagan was an American Pulitzer-prize winning author and astrophysicist. Sagan is the author of more than 600 publications. <q>“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” </cite>― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark</cite></q>
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