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World Service,16 Jul 1999,3 mins

Discovering Comets

My Century

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Carolyn Shoemaker has discovered 32 comets. She talks about her work and of her husband Eugene, a planetary geologist. He longed to travel to the moon but his ambition was only achieved in death - his ashes were sent to the moon by planetary probe.

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