The article summarized below is from THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC issue Dec.97 by William R. Newcott. It tells about how comets are important and their effect on earth and its people. Comets are leftover scrubs of material that did not make it to planethood in the events creating our solar system. They orbit in a perpetual Deepfreeze until some subtle gravitational nudge upsets the delicate balance. The Great Falls begins. First a snowball drifts towards the sun and steadily accelerates. As solar radiation heats the comets the ice within sublimates, escaping as gas from vents from the surface. Sometimes jets of...
of the Astic leaders gave up his land to the Spanish upon seeing a comet.

Definitely we are living in the age of comets where scientists detect it through telescopes and e-mail it to the central bureau for Astronomical Telegrams in Cambridge Massachusetts USA. Some people even cheat about sighting comets but usually they are caught. That is why astronomers are calling for more science jobs for young people. Since we might be the children of comets. Comets which crush into things and explode with the energy of 300 billion tons TNT. I pray this never happen to earth.?â?¢