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Comet 17P/Holmes, the Red Sox Comet
October 29, 2007 at 8:00 am by Jim
Well the last time that the Boston Red Sox won the World Series it was under a total lunar eclipse (well, totality was over by the time the Red Sox completed the 4-game sweep in St. Louis, but the eclipse did occur during the Game 4). While there was no total lunar eclipse Sunday night to usher in the 2007 title, there has been an unusual, unpredicted, and outright spectacular astronomical event that began the same day of Game 1 of the World Series, and continues this week. That is the sudden outburst of Comet 17P/Holmes.
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