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    Eyes, Shining Back from the Dark
    Eyes, Shining Back from the Dark
    Eyes, Shining Back from the Dark
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    Eyes, Shining Back from the Dark

    By Mike Combs

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    An astronomer makes a startling discovery in the depths of the outer solar system.

    This story might be enjoyed by anyone interested in mega-structures or in the speculations of Prof. Freeman Dyson.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMike Combs
    Release dateAug 20, 2019
    ISBN9780463418949
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      Eyes, Shining Back from the Dark - Mike Combs

      Eyes, Shining Back from the Dark

      by Mike Combs

      mikecombs@aol.com

      Copyright © 2004

      Cover illustration by Don Davis

      Well, Dyson's gone and topped himself again.

      Oh yeah, I replied, So exactly how does one top spheres the size of solar systems and trees on comets?

      Actually, Keith, his newest idea kinda relates to the comet trees. Kinda sorta, Danny responded.

      Danny Treece has the office next to mine here at the Wilcox Observatory. I'd made the mistake of poking my head in to say hi, and now it was starting to look like I might as well sit down. Danny had just gotten back from a conference at JPL where he'd heard the Princeton physicist Freeman Dyson give a lecture. Now it looks like he was on fire with yet another new space proposal, so I had a sermon in store.

      I knew I should humor Danny, as he was doubtless my best friend here at the observatory. The proximity of our offices, combined with the similarity of our areas of work pretty much made a friendship inevitable. We both specialized in minor bodies; he in Near Earth Objects or NEOs, as well as Main Belt objects, I in Kuiper Belt Objects or KBOs in that more-distant ring of iceteroids. I've certainly found that Danny's expertise in fixing orbital plots for objects with only two or three observations has helped me out on more than one occasion. He was also, so far as I could tell, the only dwarf working in the

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