Comets put clamps on cold-shooting Panthers to win title – SaukValley.com

Posted on January 5, 2020 by Dook Domini

ERIE Newman coach Ray Sharp broke out his lucky blue suit for the championship game of the Warkins Memorial Classic on Monday night.

In the end, it was his Comets who gave Erie-Prophetstown the blues.

Newman broke open a tight game with a third-quarter burst and cruised home with a 42-29 win over the Panthers. The Comets defended the title they also won in 2018.

Its always our goal to come out and win tournaments, sophomore forward Marcus Williams said. This tournament was huge for our bench guys, giving us good defensive and offensive minutes, and to win is icing on the cake.

Erie-Prophetstown (5-6) was within 20-19 after a free throw from Bryce Rosenow with 6 minutes, 6 seconds left in the third quarter when Newman (13-2) made its move. Backup forward Brett Newman drained a 3-pointer, then Williams followed with a pair of steals and layups to up his teams lead to 27-19 less than a minute later.

In the locker room at halftime, we talked about coming out with a lot of intensity in the third quarter, Williams said. We were a little bit slow the first 2 minutes, but something just clicked. It was one of the steals we had at the top of the 1-3-1, and we used that energy the rest of the game.

Williams dropped in a layup at the third-quarter buzzer to give Newman a 36-21 lead. The Panthers opened the fourth quarter on a 6-0 run to get within nine points, but managed just a pair of free throws and no baskets the rest of the way.

Erie-Prophetstown was 11-for-39 from the field against some typically sticky Newman defense, but it was equal parts Comets D and poor shooting.

I give Erie-Prophetstown a lot of credit, Sharp said. They were running their offense really well against our 1-3-1 and man, and getting good shots. Fortunately for us, they missed some tonight, and we were able to get some rebounds.

E-P coach Ryan Winckler echoed those sentiments.

I thought we executed well, with the the exception of a couple of times where we got trapped, but thats going to happen against Newman, Winckler said. They play so hard and cover the court so well. I was super-happy. I thought we got some tremendous looks, and a lot of teams dont get those looks against Newman. Weve just got to knock em down.

Clayton Johnson made 5 of 6 shots from the field to lead the Panthers with 10 points, but his teammates were a combined 6-for-33. Rosenow and Eric Robinson each had six points. Robinson also had seven rebounds and four blocked shots, while Johnson corralled a team-high nine boards.

Williams, the tournament MVP, led Newman with 18 points, while Devon House added nine points and 13 rebounds.

Boys basketball

Warkins Classic championship

Newman 42, Erie-Prophetstown 29

Star of the game: Marcus Williams, Newman, 18 points, 7 rebounds, 5 steals

Key performers: Devon House, Newman, 9 points, 13 rebounds; Clayton Johnson, E-P, 10 points

Up next: Princeton at Erie-Prophetstown; Kewanee at Newman, both 7 p.m. Friday

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Comets to get early start on softball base paths – Mooresville Tribune

Posted on January 5, 2020 by Dook Domini

Doing so just in time to complete the extended celebration surrounding the arrival of the New Year, the Mooresville-based Comets youth fastpitch softball organization will toss out opening pitches in preparation for the upcoming tournament season.

The Comets will be conducting open tryouts for any and all interested prospects over the upcoming weekend, the first full one of 2020.

Taking place on Sunday afternoon, the Comets will be staging initial tryout sessions for a pair of its age-oriented outfits.

Tryouts for the Comets 8-and-under as well as 12-U teams will take place at the same time, same date and same site.

The tryouts will be held on the softball field in place on the Pine Lake Prep facility off N.C. Highway 21.

Both affairs will be held from 1-3 p.m.

Team roster availabilities are open on both teams for participation in scheduled play that will be held during the 2020 season.

Alaina Harmon will be in charge of the 8-U workouts. She can also be reached at 704-516-2893 for additional details.

Dale Gilmore will take the reins of the 12-U tryouts. He can be contacted at 704-778-2042 for additional details.

Additional similar tryouts may also be held as well in order to help finalize the rosters for the tournament-caliber teams.

Lady Comets win tourney in Pottsville – The Abington Journal

Posted on January 5, 2020 by Dook Domini

December 26, 2019

Abington Heights and Lackawanna Trail each won their second straight Lackawanna League wrestling matches to share the early divisional leads with their likely top competition.

Abington Heights and Delaware Valley, the teams that finished tied for first last season, share the Division 1 lead at 2-0.

There are also two 2-0 teams, Lackawanna Trail and defending champion Blue Ridge, at the top of Division 2.

The Comets and Lions went virtually untested by a pair of short-handed teams.

Abington Heights 72, Valley View 10

Abington Heights rolled over host Valley View with the help of six forfeits.

The match started with four of those forfeits and the only one by Abington Heights to put the Comets in front, 24-6, before wrestling began.

After Valley View won at 120 pounds to cut the deficit to 24-10, Abington Heights rolled through six straight pins in a total of 7:55 before receiving its final two forfeits.

Sam Stevens and Ty Wilmot got it started with 32- and 25-second pins at 126 and 132.

Hutch Lynott (138), James Brown (152) and Jacob Gilmore (160) also had first-period pins. Sal Schaivone won in the second period at 145.

The match was the only one of the week for the Comets, who are 5-2 overall. They host Delaware Valley in the league finale Jan. 22.

Lackawanna Trail 78, Mountain View 0

The Lions started with three forfeits and ended with six more at Mountain View.

In between, they swept all five bouts on the mat, led by first-period pins from Seth Ross and Tyler Rozanski at 152 and 170.

Michael Bluhm added a pin at 138.

Dalton Klinges pulled out a 4-3 decision over Nathan Ofalt at 145 and Kody Cresswell also won a decision at 160.

BOYS BASKETBALL

Abington Heights lost twice in three days in games that matched multi-year defending division and district champions against each other.

The Comets, from Lackawanna League Division 1 and District 2 Class 5A, played Wyoming Seminary, the defending Wyoming Valley Conference overall and District 2 Class 3A champion, Wednesday, then took on Hazleton Area, the reigning WVC Division 1 and District 2-4 Class 6A Subregional champion, Friday in a pair of home games.

Hazleton Area 45, Abington Heights 42

Scotty Campbells 3-pointer from the left corner with 1.9 seconds left lifted Hazleton Area to the victory after Abington Heights had rallied from eight points behind in the fourth quarter.

The Comets tied the game in the final minute on a Corey Perkins basket in the lane.

Perkins finished with 14 points.

Phil Johnson, who had 10 of his 12 points in the second half, and Kyle Nealon each hit 3-pointers during the fourth-quarter comeback.

Harry Johnson added eight points.

Perkins had seven of his points in the first quarter to give Abington Heights a 14-12 lead.

The Comets slipped to 3-3.

Lackawanna Trail 53, Old Forge 44

Richard Helbing scored 20 points and Josh Rzucidlo added 17 to lead Lackawanna Trail past visiting Old Forge Thursday.

Nico Berrios hit a 3-pointer in each of the first three quarters, then went 5-for-5 from the line to add 14 points for the Lions.

While the teams it will play against in Lackawanna League Division 4 are a combined 1-24 against outside competition during non-league play, the Lions are off to a 4-2 start.

Wyoming Seminary 53, Abington Heights 46

Jeremy Callahan scored 21 points Dec. 18 to lead Wyoming Seminary to the victory.

Kyle Nealon drained five 3-pointers while scoring 17 points for Abington Heights. Corey Perkins added 10 points in the loss.

Lackawanna Trail 45, Towanda 30

Richard Helbing scored 10 of his 20 points to key a 16-7 second quarter that put Lackawanna Trail ahead in the Dec. 16 road game.

Nico Berrios added 13 points and Josh Rzucidlo had 10.

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Abington Heights split two games to end the week with a 5-2 record.

Holy Cross 52, Abington Heights 48

Abbey Lentowski scored 19 points Saturday night as host Holy Cross won a showdown between defending District 2 champions.

The Class 2A Lady Crusaders also got 16 points from Kaci Kranson to improve to 4-1 and beat the Class 5A Lady Comets.

Rachel McDonald made three 3-pointers and led Abington Heights with 17 points.

Abington Heights 69, Mountain View 25

Clair Marion scored nine points in the first quarter and Allison Dammer had eight in the second as Abington Heights piled up 39 first-half points at Mountain View Friday night.

Marion finished with 15 points, Rachel McDonald had 11 and Dammer had 10. Sadie Henzes made three 3-pointers while adding nine.

The win was the fifth straight for the Lady Comets.

Tunkhannock 46, Lackawanna Trail 30

Megan Gatto scored 11 points Friday when Lackawanna Trail (0-5) produced its highest-scoring game of the season while falling to 0-5 with the home loss.

Northwest 43, Lackawanna Trail 23

Megan Gatto had eight points for Lackawanna Trail during the Dec. 18 road loss.

Abington Heights Corey Perkins gets blocked by Williamsports Nassir Jones (2) during a game earlier this month.

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Huge fireballs from dead comet will soar across sky TONIGHT how to spot the Quadrantid meteor shower – The Sun

Posted on January 5, 2020 by Dook Domini

THE FIRST meteor shower of 2020 is upon us.

Avid stargazers should be able to spot the annual Quadrantid meteor shower tonight and into the early hours of Saturday morning.

Up to 60 meteors an hour are expected to burn across the sky in a spectacular display.

The Quadrantid meteor shower usually starts in late December and lasts until early January but the best time to see it will be January 3 and 4.

This is because tonight is when the meteor shower will reach its peak.

The celestial display occurs because the Earth passes through the trail of an asteroid or possible rock comet called 2003 EH1.

This space rock is travelling through our Solar System at 26 miles per second.

Meteors are pieces of debris that have broken off asteroids or comets.

If this debris comes into contact with the Earth's atmosphere at speed then they burn up and become visible as bright streaks across the sky.

The meteor shower is set to peak later on tonight and in the early hours of tomorrow morning.

Some experts think your best chance of seeing the bright display will be just before sunrise on Saturday 4.

Sunrise in London will be at 8:06am.

You'll want to be outside at least an hour before this so your eyes have a chance to adjust to the dark.

The meteor shower should be visible from most of the countries in the Northern Hemisphere.

You'll need to look north-east and below the handle of the Big Dipper constellation.

As with any meteor shower, there is no guarantee you'll definitely be able to spot it as sometimes it just comes down to the luck of being in the right place at the right time.

The Royal Observatory advise: "For the best conditions, you want to find a safe location away from street lights and other sources of light pollution.

"The meteors can be seen in all parts of the sky, so its good to be in a wide-open space where you can scan the night sky with your eyes."

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More than Comets: Inside the Adirondack Bank Center – Utica Observer Dispatch

Posted on January 5, 2020 by Dook Domini

When most people think of the Adirondack Bank Center, they think of the Utica Comets.

While the American Hockey League team is the headlining act, the arena is anything but empty when theyre not in town. Most days, the first skaters hit the ice at 6:30 a.m. and a steady stream of teams use the facility until it closes at 11 p.m., said Ray Meyers, Adirondack Bank Center assistant general manager.

The arena is shared by the Comets, two Utica College ice hockey teams, a National Collegiate Development Conference team and 13 youth hockey teams, as well as the Utica City FC soccer team. Its a lot of activity to be contained within a single facility and Meyers said scheduling is a big challenge.

The Adirondack Bank Center has about 470 total employees, counting part-time and restaurant staff. There are only 15 maintenance staff employees, however, and ensuring proper staffing and time off between shifts can be tough, Meyers said.

A lot of what we do is a team effort; theres not one particular individual job, Meyers said. Its a collaborative effort to get it done.

The responsibilities for maintenance staff are varied and around the clock. Any given day, theyre responsible for 11 ice cuts during hours of operation.

Donald Bienkowski, the maintenance manager and an employee at the center for 19 years, watches the Comets practice while alongside the ice cutting machine he drives. He said he measures the thickness of the ice every Monday and weighs factors that can affect ice quality, including outside air temperature.

While he hasnt cut ice during a Comets game this season, Bienkowski said he works during the day shift, when theres a team on the ice almost all the time.

You see a lot of hockey, thats for sure, Bienkowski said.

Despite the demands of the job, Bienkowski said there are good workers at the Adirondack Bank Center and the work is fun.

Its exciting to work here, he said. The people are great.

The entire maintenance staff faces their biggest challenge when changing the arena surface from ice to something else, such as the turf field for Utica City FC. Its an all-night process, Bienkowski said.

For soccer games, the ice needs to be covered by the turf and a lower tier of seating is pushed back to make a field-level beer garden. All of the glass is removed and some of the boards, to allow for recessed goals and team-specific advertising sponsors.

Meyers said the changeover occurs at night, with maintenance employees working until 7 a.m., then returning by 4 p.m. the next day to do it again.

The addition of the Adirondack Bank Centers new neighbor, the Nexus Center, wont alleviate the late-night changeovers between soccer and hockey, Meyers said. The 170,000-square-foot proposed facility will change some of the dynamics of use at the Aud, though.

The Nexus Center, which may receive up to $22 million in state funds, is expected to have three sheets of ice. Meyers said the centers location along the Thruway will help draw tournaments.

Facilities like this exist in Marlborough, Massachusetts, Lake Placid, Buffalo, Philadelphia, said Lindsay Mogle, vice president of communications for the Utica Comets. So if you look at those on a map, were the central hub to all of that.

With more ice availability once the Nexus Center is built, youth hockey is likely to grow, Meyers said. There currently are youth locker rooms and other amenities in the Adirondack Bank Center, but only one place to play.

Youth hockey wont be the only beneficiary of the Nexus Center, however. If the Comets are displaced due to a concert or other event, as happened once with a police funeral, they have to find another place to practice, Meyers said.

Now theyll be able to practice on a different sheet of ice right here and wont have to travel to New Hartford or Whitesboro to get ice, he said.

One current tenant of the Adirondack Bank Center, the Utica College womens ice hockey team, is still waiting to see the full impact of the Nexus Center. Coach Dave Clausen said its unknown how scheduling will unfold with the new center, but everyone will benefit from the additional ice slots.

An expansion of facilities is going to be exciting, Clausen said.

The additional ice will benefit those using the facility, but it will also impact existing maintenance employees.

It is going to be a lot more demand on our staff, having to maintain three more sheets of ice on top of the one were doing now, Meyers said. So our drivers will basically be going from one rink to another rink to the next rink all day long.

The proposed Nexus Center follows the revitalization of the Adirondack Bank Center, which was expanded, renovated and rebranded in 2017. The facility received a 26,000-square-foot expansion, including a new entrance, executive suites and a new womens bathroom as part of a state-funded $10.55 million project.

The Utica Memorial Auditorium was built by the City of Utica in 1959 on land donated by the state. The cable-supported roof structure was the first of its kind and the building provided inspiration for Madison Square Garden, the home of the New York Knicks and New York Rangers.

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Will the Utica Comets be playing an outdoor game? – Utica Observer Dispatch

Posted on December 26, 2019 by Dook Domini

The possibility of a professional outdoor hockey game in the Mohawk Valley took a considerable step Thursday.

The Mohawk Valley Regional Economic Development Council was awarded $82.7 million for 81 economic development projects, state officials announced Thursday.

Among those projects is a proposal for the Mohawk Valley Garden group to hold a "Winter Festival Sporting Event" as part of the 25th anniversary of Romes Griffiss Business and Technology Park and the grand opening of the Nexus Center in downtown Utica, according to the awards listing.

In development on Whitesboro Street next to the Adirondack Bank Center, the Nexus Center is touted as a tournament-based recreation facility primarily for hockey, box lacrosse and soccer.

The "Winter Festival Sporting Event" project was awarded $345,000. The listing mentions the event would include a "Utica Comets (American Hockey League) outdoor game, an NCAA Division III game featuring Utica College, a (Major Arena Soccer League) match featuring Utica City FC, and other local and regional competitions."

No further details, including dates for the possible events, were announced.

Rome Mayor Jacqueline Izzo said that the bulk of the $345,000 would be used for an outdoor game at the Griffiss Business Park. The money would fund a portable rink and seating areas, with everything set up near one of the hangars, Izzo said. She referred to this as retrofitting the area for the game.

"It sounds like a really exciting event for the community," Izzo said. "Outdoor hockey events are the rage right now."

Rob Esche, president of Mohawk Valley Garden, could not be reached for comment Thursday. Mohawk Valley Garden is an overall organization that manages the Utica Comets and Utica City FC, among others.

Esche told the Observer-Dispatch in 2017 that he was looking to have an outdoor game in the Utica area, but noted there were challenges in finding a suitable venue. He said at the time he had spoken with Syracuse Crunch owner Howard Dolgon about being included in an outdoor game, but those plans didnt come to fruition.

"We would love to compete on that type of stage," Esche said in January 2017. "I think it would be a great experience. Im all for building the sport in Central New York and building the sport as a whole. ..."

AHL Vice President of Communications Jason Chaimovitch said the scheduling process hasnt started yet for the 2020-21 season. That process usually starts early in the year, he said. The AHL would work with the Comets for the possible game, he said.

"We would help in making sure it gets scheduled," Chaimovitch said. "It is not on our radar, yet."

There have been 10 outdoor games in the AHLs history. Most notably, the Syracuse Crunch put on an outdoor game in 2010 at the New York State Fairgrounds. The Rochester Americans also played at Frontier Field in 2013.

Utica College Athletic Director Dave Fontaine and mens hockey coach Gary Heenan said they didnt have any details surrounding the schools possible involvement.

Notably, UC was included as part of the Frozen Dome Classic in 2014 when the Comets and Crunch played in Syracuse.

Contact reporter Ben Birnell at 315-792-5032 or follow him on Twitter @OD_Birnell.

Observer-Dispatch reporter Edward Harris contributed to this story.

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NASA Issues Warning Over Pack Of Comets That Can Wipe Out The Human Race – The Buzz Paper

Posted on December 26, 2019 by Dook Domini

Another type of celestial killer thats the packs more of a punch than asteroids, Nasa has warned and continuously researching over it for since past few months.

NASA has reported that Pack of Comets could appear out of nowhere and can collapse wiping out every species living on the Earth.

And even some scientists have now believed that made of ice, gas, and rock. Comets are often likened to dirty snowballs that have wiped the dinosaurs species rather than the asteroids. NASA expert said in one of his interviews early December that Comets are essentially asteroids which are heavy on ice

Throughout history, comets have been seen as wicked, predicting terrible events, such as hunger, plague, and war. This fear of comets is also present in most modern times. In 1910, word spread that Halleys comets tail is a deadly gas that will cover the Earth. Anti-kite bullets and gas masks did an energetic business despite the guarantees of most astronomers.

You are likely to kill comets in eccentric orbits that increase your risk of slipping on Earth. Comets may appear in the first months or years of impact, meaning that we may have very little time to destroy or destroy an object on a collision course with Earth.

Objects called long-term comets present a particular challenge. They follow huge orbits, revolve around the Sun for more than 200 years, and their movements are much harder to predict.

Those pieces will rain automatically, destroy cities and cause devastating for all civilization. Anyone who has lived through this initial bombardment would be involved in a difficult battle to survive since the impact would throw so much dust and debris that sunlight is blocked and planets cannot grow.

NASA wrote earlier: it would have been disastrous if it had an object of a similar size to hit the Earth. The effect can send dust and debris to the sky, creating a fog that will calm the atmosphere and absorb sunlight, covering the entire planet in the dark. If the fog lasts a long time, the life of the plants will die, along with those and animals that depend on it to survive.

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Interstellar comet 2I/Borisov is whizzing through the solar system. – Vox.com

Posted on December 18, 2019 by Dook Domini

It came from beyond.

This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of a comet that is passing through our solar system. It was born around a star that is not our own, then flung off into space by some unknown cataclysm.

But its not here to stay. Its moving at around 100,000 mph, which is much too fast for even our mighty sun to capture it in its orbit. (For reference, Voyager 1, the spacecraft thats has left our solar system, is traveling at around 35,000 mph.) The comet, named 2I/Borisov, is only the second interstellar object recorded in our solar system. The first, a cigar-shaped rock (also probably a comet of sorts), named Oumuamua was discovered in 2017.

The above image was taken on November 16. The bright blue object in the center is the comet, approximately 203 million miles away from the Earth. The smudgy object to the left of it is actually a spiral galaxy 390 million light-years in the background. (Hows that for an extreme contrast in scale? The core of the comet is probably less than a mile wide.)

Heres another image of the comet, from Hubble, shortly after its closest approach to the sun on December 9, when it was 185 million miles away.

The comet was first spotted in August while it was on its way into our solar system. That gives astronomers a long time to observe this rare object. Theyve been watching it since it was discovered. And already, theyve made some small discoveries.

Namely: They discovered 2I/Borisov looks a lot like comets that form in our own solar system. Its a tiny ball of ice and rock that exudes vapor when warmed by the sun. That is evidence that comets also form around other stars, NASA relays. Its simple, but something scientists dont take for granted.

2I/Borisov is the second interstellar object to be recorded entering our solar neighborhood. The first, Oumuamua, was discovered while it was exiting our solar system, and astronomers only could study it for a short window of time. (Those studies led to some wild speculation that Oumuamua was an alien spaceship. To be clear: It very most likely was not.)

In the future, astronomers hope to spot more and more of these interstellar visitors. Theyre hard to find because theyre small and faint, and moving so quickly. But our telescopes are growing sensitive. The more we see, the more well understand how much our solar system is like, and unlike, the greater cosmos.

2I/Borisov, which is too faint to see without a telescope, will make its closest approach to Earth on December 28, before reaching Jupiter by the middle of 2020. Then it will keep going, going, until its gone.

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Big Second Half Sends Bison to Win Over Comets – Valley News Live

Posted on December 18, 2019 by Dook Domini

FARGO, N.D. (NDSU Athletics) -- The North Dakota State women's basketball team outscored Mayville State 38-7 in the third quarter, as the Bison beat the Comets 97-59 at the Scheels Center Sunday afternoon.

NDSU improved to 2-9 on the year with the first home win of the season. The game was an exhibition for the Comets, who are 9-2 on the year and ranked 21st in the NAIA Division II Top 25 Poll. The Bison improved to 27-0 all-time against the Comets.

Emily Dietz had a season-high 22 points, while Michelle Gaislerova tied a season-high with 21 points. It was the fourth career game with 20 or more points for Dietz, while it was the ninth for Gaislerova. With three 3-pointers, Gaislerova moved into a tie for fourth in school history with 145 career long balls. Rylee Nudell added a season-high 15 points. Kylee Heurung led the Comets with 16 points and 12 rebounds.

Nudell led the Bison with a season-high eight rebounds. Dietz added seven rebounds, while Danneka Voegeli had six boards. Dietz tied a career-high with three assists, while Sofija Zivaljevic, Raquel Terrer van Gool and Nicole Scales each had two. Ryan Cobbins had four steals.

NDSU was 31-of-67 (46.3%) from the field and 5-of-15 from 3-point range. The Comets were 16-of-53 (30.2%) from the floor and 8-of-24 from downtown. Mayville State was 19-of-21 (90.5%) at the free throw line, while NDSU was 30-of-36 (83.3%). It was the first time the Bison have hit 30 free throws or more in a game since going 31-of-36 at the line in a 94-85 victory over Fort Wayne on Jan. 23, 2016. NDSU dominated the specialty stats, holding advantages in points off turnovers (29-10), points in the paint (36-12), second chance points (22-4) and bench points (25-18).

The Bison used an early 14-2 run to take a 14-5 lead with 2:36 to play in the first quarter. Mayville State used a pair of 8-0 runs in the second quarter, while NDSU ended the second run with a basket at the buzzer by Voegeli to cut the halftime lead to 35-31. The Bison scored the first nine points of the second half en route to a 21-3 run over a 5:35 span. Following a jumper by Claire Blascziek with 3:43 left in the third quarter, NDSU closed the frame on a 17-2 run to take a 69-42 lead into the final quarter. NDSU led by as much as 40 in the final minute, closing the game on a 14-6 run.

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Binghamton Devils End Losing Streak With 5-1 Win Over Utica Comets – All About The Jersey

Posted on December 18, 2019 by Dook Domini

Binghamton, NY - The Binghamton Devils pumped 41 shots on Utica Comets veteran goaltender Richard Bachman on their way to a 5-1 victory on Teddy Bear Toss night at The Floyd on Saturday. The win put an end to a record eight-game losing streak that sunk the club to the bowels of the league. Goalie Gilles Senn with the start played well enough to earn 2nd Star of the Game honors with his 23 saves.

Binghamton (8-15-4-0) got off to an early lead just 51 seconds in as Ben Street raced down the sideboards after a blocked shot on a breakaway goal for his 11th of the season. What followed was the annual Teddy Bear Toss with the ice littered delaying the game. After the clean-up, it was 2-0 as a tap in front by Julian Melchiori that sent the puck top shelf, shoulder side of Bachman as the shots were 21-8 at this point in favor of the Devils.

Utica (15-10-1-2) gave up three goals in the second period as the Devils burned the Comets defense for two more breakaway markers. Brandon Gignac heads up pass laid on the stick of Ryan Schmelzer as he raced in and deked out Bachman with some fancy stick work in front. Probably the prettiest goal of the night was from rookie Fabian Zetterlund with a snipe from the circle for his fourth in 19 outings, as he skated towards center ice with his arms raised in celebration.

During the closing seconds of the middle frame, Binghamton tacked on a power-play tally as Joey Anderson fed the puck over to Dakota Mermis high in the slot as his wrister beat Bachman stick side. That led to a standing ovation from the festive crowd as the players headed off to the locker rooms.

In the third, Utica attempted to start a comeback as Seamus Malone scored midway through the period, but Senn was solid as well as the defense that played in front of him.

Binghamton wanted this game in the worse way, and they were rewarded with the efforts for a full 60 minutes of performance. Shots read 41-24 as the BDevils dominated this one, something that could not have been said the previous eight contests.

Seney - Street - Anderson, Conner - Maltsev - Bastian, Gignac - Sharangovich - Schmelzer, Baddock - Larsson - Zetterlund

Melchiori/Paliotta, Mermis/Summers, Groleau/Jacobs

Senn - Schneider

Scratches: Speers, Cumiskey, White & Studenic

#1. Ben Street (1g, 1a), #2. Gilles Senn (23 saves), #3. Ryan Schmelzer (1g)

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Beavers beat Comets in girls’ basketball – Midland Daily News

Posted on December 18, 2019 by Dook Domini

BEAVERTON Molly Gerow scored a career-high 34 points on 13-of-17 shooting from the field and 8-of-10 from the line in Beaverton's 67-33 win over Coleman in nonleague girls' basketball on Monday.

Gerow also had five steals while Kait Maxwell scored 15 points for the Beavers, who are 3-1 overall.

"We set some rebounding goals, which was critical (after a loss to Harrison on Friday)," Beaverton coach Renee Inscho said. "Our outside (shooters) did a good job of getting the ball inside, and Molly (Gerow) took advantage."

For the Comets, Kylie Herkel had 13 points and seven rebounds, Havahna DeJongh had seven rebounds and three assists, and Makayla Rogers had three blocks.

"We still have some things to work on, but were improving and getting more confidence in attacking the hoop," Coleman coach Nick Katzinger said. " ... We came into the game shorthanded ... with six players. I'm proud of those girls for fighting the whole game. We need to get healthy so we can see the full potential of this team."

Beaverton is 3-1 and visits Meridian on Wednesday.

Coleman is 0-4 and visits Ashley on Friday.

Beaverton also beat Coleman in the junior varsity game, 45-23, led by Leiyah Mungin's 20 points.

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That Rogue Interstellar Comet Was Imaged Almost a Year Before Its Actual Discovery – ScienceAlert

Posted on November 25, 2019 by Dook Domini

It may have only been officially discovered in August 2019, but the tremendously exciting interstellar comet 2I/Borisov was already well inside the Solar System at that point. And, after poring over sky survey data, astronomers have found the object appeared in images dating all the way back to December 2018.

The comet's distance at discovery was 3 astronomical units from the Sun - around twice the distance of Mars' average orbit (if off in a wildly different direction). The farthest distance it is visible is around 8 astronomical units - way out past the orbit of Jupiter.

This is a discovery that helps understand the properties of our interstellar visitor, and strengthens calculations of its trajectory. The research has been uploaded to pre-print resource arXiv, and submitted to The Astronomical Journal.

Because of its angle of approach, 2I/Borisov was in what is known as the solar avoidance zone prior to its discovery. This region of the sky is too close to the Sun to return clean observations, since solar radiation creates a lot of noise, which can obscure the signal; and the Sun's powerful radiation can damage some delicate instruments.

The solar avoidance zone is therefore generally, well, avoided; 2I/Borisov was in this region between May and September 2019.

But all-sky time-domain surveys, which sweep the skies looking for changes in cosmic objects, are often looking at the skies when other objects are not. And, because they're optimised to spot things that are out of the ordinary, they are a really good resource for chance observations of objects before they are actually discovered.

(Tony873004/Wikimedia Commons)

So, a team of researchers led by Quanzhi Ye of the University of Maryland tapped into data collected by the Catalina Sky Survey, Pan-STARRS and the Zwicky Transient Facility to see if any of them had caught a glimpse of the comet.

They ran these through software to identify the presence of a comet in the data, and returned an impressive result.

"We identified a total of 202 images from 2018 October 1 to the discovery date of 2I (2019 August 30) that potentially contained the comet," they wrote in their paper.

The earliest detection was on 13 December 2018, at a distance of 8 astronomical units from the Sun. For context, Jupiter's average orbit is 5.2 astronomical units from the Sun.

They also carefully studied the region of the sky where the comet should be, based on its trajectory, in images from November, when it should have been around 8.5 astronomical units from the Sun, and got no result. And that tells us something.

(Ye et al., arXiv, 2019)

For one, it allows astronomers to constrain the size of the comet's nucleus - it can, the team said, be no more than 7 kilometres (4.3 miles) in radius. They also believe that the active area of the comet - producing gas - is between 0.5 and 10 kilometres squared. These are both consistent with previous measurements.

Secondly, 2I/Borisov appears to have become active between 5 and 7 astronomical units, sublimating ices - where they transition directly from ice to gas without the intermediate liquid step - to create a fuzzy coma and tail. This, in turn, reveals something about its volatile composition.

Typically, Solar System comets that become active between 3 and 5 astronomical units are sublimating water ice. However, comets that become active between 5 and 8 astronomical units do so due to more volatile molecules, such as carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide.

Since every measurement taken of 2I/Borisov to date suggests it is pretty normal compared to long-period Solar System comets from the Oort Cloud - also known as dynamically new comets - there's no reason to think it will be any different in this regard either.

Which means we may be in for a spectacular show as the comet draws ever closer to the Sun.

"It will be interesting to see if 2I continues to fit into the profile of dynamically new comets. For Solar System comets, it is known that dynamically new comets are 10 times more likely to disintegrate than short-period comets, presumably due to their pristine state and weaker structural strength," the researchers wrote.

"Continued observations of 2I will enable further comparison to dynamically new comets in our Solar System, and provide timely warning for any disintegration (or, as a less dramatic form, outburst) that may happen."

The research has been submitted to The Astronomical Journal, and is available on arXiv.

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Roussel assigned to Comets on conditioning loan – Utica Observer Dispatch

Posted on November 25, 2019 by Dook Domini

Ben Birnell

MondayNov25,2019at9:59AM

The Utica Comets are getting a short visit from an NHL veteran.

On Monday, French forward Antoine Roussel was assigned to the Comets on a conditioning loan from the parent Vancouver Canucks as he continues to work back from a knee injury.

Roussel, who turned 30 years old on Thursday, tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee last March while playing with Vancouver. Hes been on injured reserve since the start of the season, but has been recently skating with the Canucks recently. Hes traveled with the Canucks during their road trip that brought them to the East Coast in the last few days.

Because he's still on the NHL's injured reserve Roussels conditioning loan can't exceed six days or three games as he prepares to return to the Vancouver lineup, according to the collective bargaining agreement. That means Roussel could suit up for the Comets in Wednesdays home game against the Syracuse Crunch as well as on a weekend trip to Toronto.

Roussel, who signed with Vancouver in July 2018, has played 478 NHL games mostly with Dallas. Roussel had a career-best 31 points with the Canucks last season before he was injured in a collision with the New York Rangers Brendan Lemieux.

Roussel also has AHL experience with Texas, Chicago and Providence though the last of his 146 games happened in 2013. The winger, known for his agitating style, amassed 36 points and 372 penalty minutes during his time in the AHL.

It is the second time this season that Vancouver has utilized a conditioning stint for a player. Defenseman Oscar Fantenberg spent two games with the Comets earlier this month.

The Comets, who are coming off a 4-2 win over Laval on Saturday, have struggled at times in November going 3-7-1-0 with two games remaining in the month. The Comets are 11-7-1-0 overall -- their second-best start to a season in the team's history -- and are in fourth place in the North Division going into Wednesday's game against Syracuse, which trails Utica by a point.

Roussel assigned to Comets on conditioning loan - Utica Observer Dispatch

A Comet Weve Never Seen Has Been Lighting Up the Sky for 100 Years – Free

Posted on November 25, 2019 by Dook Domini

On Thursday night, Earth might pass through the trail of a comet that humans have never directly observed, but which has lit up our skies with fantastic outbursts of hundreds of meteors for at least the past century.

The meteors are called the alpha Monocerotids, because they are located in the direction of the constellation Monoceros, or the Unicorn. For this reason, the meteors are sometimes called the unicorn shower.

The alpha Monocerotids are chunks of dust that broke off of an unobserved comet and then burn up in Earths atmosphere to create shooting stars. The comets long debris trail has illuminated the night skies in the past, with particularly bright meteor showers in 1925, 1935, 1985, and 1995.

Technically, the alpha Monocerotids occur every year, but they normally only produce a small smattering of shooting stars. This is likely because Earth usually passes through the edge of the stream, rather than getting smacked by the more clustered trail in the center.

Earlier this month, meteor shower experts Peter Jenniskens of the SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research Center and Esko Lyytinen of the Finnish Fireball Network predicted that Earth is likely to pass through or near this meteor-dense part of the alpha Monocerotids rubble stream again on Thursday night.

Because this stream is fairly thin, Jenniskens and Lyytinen said that the shower would be very short-livedno longer than 40 minutesbut that it could produce hundreds of meteors during that outburst. The pair projected that this outburst would probably peak around 11:50 pm ET and would be visible to skywatchers in eastern North America, western Europe, and South America. Jenniskens had previously predicted the 1995 event before it occurred.

But before you get hyped to see this rare meteoric event, you might want to read this blog post by Bill Cooke, who leads NASAs Meteoroid Environment Office. After revisiting the known data about the shower, Cooke became skeptical and came to the conclusion that there is a pretty good chance there may be no outburst at all, according to the post. If there is one, it might not be the spectacle that some stargazers imagined.

The uncertainty stems from the unknown amount of time it takes this mysterious comet to complete an orbit around the Sun. Scientists know the orbital periods of comets that produce famous meteor showers such as the Leonids and Perseids, but Jenniskens and Lyytinen had to calculate a rough estimate for the comet associated with the alpha Monocerotids, since it has not been directly observed.

Based on the timing of past outbursts, the pair suggests that this comet travels around the Sun once every 500 years or so.

Cooke thinks this estimate is too rough to clearly herald another brilliant outburst. The intensity of the outburst is very dependent on the size of the parent comets orbit, he pointed out. If it is much smaller, or larger, the distance from the stream center will be bigger, and there will not be any sky show, just the normal [alpha Monocerotids], puttering along with their normal rate of three or so meteors per hour.

[S]ince we have not yet discovered this mysterious parent comet, he adds, who knows how close the estimate of the orbit is to the actual?

Thats not to suggest that there wont be a beautiful shower with hundreds of visible meteors tonight. In fact, Cooke said that if there is, the number of meteors will be provide some much-needed data for calculating a more exact orbit for the unidentified comet.

As Cooke concludes, its never a bad idea to set aside some time to gaze at the night sky. But if you are looking forward to a radiant light show, you may want to to temper your expectations, embrace the mystery, and evaluate these dueling meteor predictions in real time.

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2019-20 Boys Basketball Preview West Carter: Comets set to turn on jets – The Independent

Posted on November 25, 2019 by Dook Domini

Do not expect to see West Carter coach Jeremy Webb sporting a flight jacket and aviators as he walks to the floor this season in Cometland.

We want to play fast, Webb said.

Just because the 14-year veteran suddenly feels the need for speed does not mean he will be making a cameo appearance dressed like Maverick or Goose from the 1986 hit Top Gun. It does, however, mean that opposing teams may find themselves in a nightly dogfight with the Comets defense flying around like a sky full of boogies over the Pacific Ocean.

I like to have flexibility and we will have the personnel that we can get out on the floor and pressure some people, Webb said. I can put some quick guards in the game that should be able to D some guys up, then if I go zone, add some guys in with length to make it difficult on our opponents.

Coming off a 16-13 season, West Carter saw as many highs as it did lows with overtime affairs something of the norm. The Comets played in five overtime affairs including a pair of triple OT thrillers at Lewis County on Feb. 8 and East Carter 11 days later. West Carter fell, 75-71, to the Lions but dispatched the Raiders, 62-59, in the opening round of districts in Olive Hill.

Now, the Comets look to build upon the lessons learned last season in hopes of taking that next step forward.

One of the things we tried to do last year was develop a lot of depth and that just helps with the future, Webb said. We planned for this year in a lot of ways simply because we knew we would have so many kids coming back. We do have some guys like Braden (Leadingham) and Tyson (Webb) that have a lot of varsity basketball experience and we will rely heavily on them.

The good news for the Comets is their top two scorers return this season. The bad news is two of the top four graduated.

We lost Rodney (Evans) and Ethan (Adkins) and they had been in our program for quite a while and they were both good basketball players, Webb said. But we do have a lot of pieces with a lot of experience coming back.

Evans averaged just north of 10 points a night and Adkins was at 9.5. However, Adkins was a warrior on the boards for the Comets with nearly eight boards a night. Leadingham was the next closest at five but Webb said a trio of forwards will have the job of cleaning up the glass for the Comets.

Dominick Dean, Ben Wilburn and Trevor Callahan all draw the assignment of filling one of the Comets biggest voids last season while contributing on the scoreboard as well.

One of our weaknesses last year was rebounding the basketball and all three of those guys are going to have that ability and they can all step out and shoot the basketball for us, Webb said.

But it is fathomable to think the Comets do have an Iceman-Maverick duo in Leadingham and Tyson Webb. Both can score in different ways. Both like to go fast, and both love a challenge.

Its big for me because Ive worked really hard and Ive always dreamed of being a key part of a team, Leadingham said of the leadership role. I think me and Tyson are a big part of things, but we have five or six guys who are going to contribute. Dominic Dean has put on muscle this year and Trevor and Trace (Tackett) can shoot the outside ball. I dont consider us a two-man team at all.

As for Webb, he brings a wealth of versatility to the court from the guard position and can play from any spot on the floor.

Tyson has the ability to create his own shot off the dribble, Webb said of his cousin. Hes quick and athletic and from the point guard position, thats really all you can ask.

But dont forget about Merlin, Cougar and Hollywood who all served as key support roles, just as Tackett, Dean and Evan Jordan will be called upon to do this year.

One of the things Im going to be able to do is put three pretty quick guards in the game, Webb said. With Jackson (Bond) coming in from football and Braden and Tyson on the wings and then put two shooters like Evan and Trace Tackett in the corners and allow those three out front to have some offensive creativity.

Tackett works as a pure shooter from the corner while leading the Comets with 39 made 3s last year.

Leadingham said the trust the team has with each other started in elementary school.

West Carter faces a challenging first month of the season.

December is going to be a tough month for us, but thats what we need, Webb said. You can play teams that you should beat, and you should be better than they are, but those teams dont exploit your weaknesses. I think its important that time of year that you need to find out your weaknesses, find out where you are at and that is the time of year you can figure that out.

West Carter opens with Fairview on Dec. 3 then meets Russell four days later in the opening round of the EKC Tournament.

The Comets ultimate goal is getting back to Morehead in March for another crack at the 16th Region. They suffered an early exit in the tournament last year against Rowan County.

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Juice Boxes and Post Game Stats: Stokic Makes 150th Appearance for the Kansas City Comets – The Blue Testament

Posted on November 25, 2019 by Dook Domini

The Kansas City Comets fell in their season opener for the 2019-2020 season 6-5 to the Turlock Cal Express in overtime. With newer players expected to play a bigger role this season, veteran, Stefan Stokic hit a milestone with the club in the loss. Here are the stats and milestones from Friday nights game.

Stefan Stokic made his 150th league appearance for the Comets, hes the 4th player to reach that milestone.

Stokic made his 170th appearance in all competitions, breaking his tie with Vahid Assadpour for 4th all time on that list.

John Sosa scored his 64th league goal for the Comets, tying him with Ramone Palmer for 7th all time on that list.

Sosas goal was his 69th in all competitions for the Comets, brekaing his tie with Palmer for 7th all time on that list.

Kiel Williams assist was his 50th point for the Comets in league play, hes the 18th player to hit that mark.

Williams goal was his 35th in all competitions for the Comets, breaking his tie with Ignacio Flores and Anthony Grant for 13th all time on that list.

Williams 2 points gave him 57 for his career in all competitions for the Comets, moving him ahead of Jamar Beasley and into 16th place all time on that list.

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Mysterious comet predicted to trigger outburst of meteors Thursday night – WHIO

Posted on November 25, 2019 by Dook Domini

Published: Thursday, November 21, 2019 @ 12:50 AMBy: McCall Vrydaghs-Storm Center 7 Chief Meteorologist

Two well known meteor scientists are predicting the outburst of the alpha Monocerotid meteor shower tonight, with as many as 400 to 1,000 meteors per hour possible.

The last time an outburst occurred was in 1995, which produced up to 400 meteors per hour.

The outburst is forecast to reach its climax around 11:50 p.m., according to the American Meteor Society.

Unfortunately, a passing cold front will bring widespread cloud cover to the Miami Valley during the peak of this potential outburst.

>>7 must-see photos of natures light show: Leonid meteor shower

Peter Jenniskens and Esko Lyytinen have made calculations for the outburst after studying the meteor shower for years.

However, there is some speculation as to whether this outburst will happen.

According to NASA scientists, the intensity of an outburst depends on the size of the parent comets orbit and how close Earth is to the comet as it passes through the Monocerotid meteor stream.

And since we have not yet discovered this mysterious parent comet, who knows how close the estimate of the orbit is to the actual, said Bill Cooke, the lead of NASAs Meteoroid Environment Office.

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The cool thing is that if an outburst does occur, we will have a pretty good idea of the orbit of this comet not from observing the comet with telescopes, but by counting its debris as they burn up in our atmosphere, Cook said.

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Rocket vs. Comets recap: Third-period outburst propels Laval past Utica – Habs Eyes on the Prize

Posted on November 25, 2019 by Dook Domini

When the Laval Rocket shut out the Bridgeport Sound Tigers last weekend, it looked like the perfect launching point for another lengthy win streak. However, against a now Sheldon Keefe-less Marlies side on Wednesday, they managed just one point, dropping the game in overtime. The team played well, but lacked a bit of finish in the loss to their rivals. Perhaps more concerning, they also lost star forward Alex Belzile to a dirty hit from behind.

Noah Juulsen did return to the lineup, and at a perfect time as the Utica Comets strolled into town boasting an offence capable of exploding at any second. Reid Boucher was leading the AHL in goals with 13 on the year, but opposing him in net for the Rocket was rookie sensation Cayden Primeau who was among the leagues best at stopping pucks this year.

The Rocket grabbed the first good chance of the game when Jake Evans collected a pass from Anton Waked and broke in on a short breakaway. Zane McIntyre stood tall, fighting off Evanss shot with his shoulder to keep it scoreless.

That was not the case for long as a hooking call on Maxim Lamarche put Laval on an early penalty kill. After fending off a few prime looks, the Rocket left a bit too much space and Francis Perron jumped all over a rebound that he tucked by a sprawling Primeau to make it 1-0 Utica.

The Rocket had a power play of their own after Dylan Blujus was caught hooking a Laval forward behind the play, but without Xavier Ouellet, Charles Hudon and Belzile, the man advantage was lacking bite. The power play wasnt able to convert, but it did breathe some life back into the Rocket, helping them overcome a sluggish start.

Before the period was over, Laval finally found the back of the net thanks to a big solo effort from Josh Brook. The rookie defender picked up a puck with speed through the neutral zone, flying into Uticas end and leaving Jalen Chatfield scrambling to get over to cover him. Brook snapped off a quick wrist shot that flew by McIntyre and tied the game wiith about three minutes left in the first.

After another man advantage failed to make a big impact, at even strength the Rocket got the job done once again. An offensive-zone draw came to Juulsen, who flung a pass across the zone to Gustav Olofsson. He found Riley Barber all alone, and the veteran forward fired a shot off Michael McCarron in front, making it 2-1 Rocket.

Laval had to jump back on the penalty kill shortly after as Kevin Lynch was whistled for tripping with nine minutes gone in the period. After allowing a power-play marker in the first period, the penalty-killers locked down the Comets, and generated a few scoring chances of their own.

Out of the box, Lynch threaded a perfect two-on-one pass to Ryan Poehling, who was denied by McIntyre at the goal line. Poehling followed that up by working out of the corner for another great look.

With the period almost over, the Comets flipped the puck out of their zone to relieve the pressure, and Lamarche went back to collect it. He quickly turned and fired a long stretch pass up to NIkita Jevpalovs, who in turn went across the zone to Barber. As Barber cut to the net he lost the puck, but Evans was there to pick it up and shovel it in to send Laval to the intermission leading by two.

Another early penalty sent the Rocket to another power play, and again they did not convert despite McCarron and Matthew Pecas best efforts in the early going. However, as the trend had gone all night, the Rocket struck moments after their advantage expired. Otto Leskinen took a pass from Evans and waited patiently before walking off the blue line and blasting his first North American goal by McIntyre to make it 4-1.

Leskinen gave one goal back though, as he took a hooking penalty, which allowed Lukas Jasek the opportunity to bury a huge rebound to get the Comets back into the game.

The Rocket did not allow that to happen as 40 seconds later, Baber finally scored a power-play marker. Just a minute after that, Poehling chipped a shot on net that sat right in the crease, and he circled the net and swatted his own chance home to make it a four-goal lead early in the third period.

Some late discipline issues ended up costing the Rocket as the final minutes approached. McCarron tried to avoid contact but ran over a Comets player, and then when he was being pulled away turned and slashed him, cancelling the Rocket power play. It took just four seconds for the Comets to strike on the four-on-four situation, making it a 6-3 game. A soft boarding call on Juulsen kept the Utica advantage going, and with 19 seconds left, Jonah Gadjovich made it 6-4. Primeau kept that scoreline for the remainder of the game, and a made it a third straight game with points for Laval.

These two teams will square off again this afternoon in the annual Teddy Bear Toss game. Charlie Lindgren is the expected starter.

1. Riley Barber (One Goal, Two Assists)

2. Jake Evans (One Goal, One Assist)

3. Otto Leskinen (One Goal)

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The Oort Cloud Is Trying To Kill Us With Comets – Forbes

Posted on November 13, 2019 by Dook Domini

Yeah it looks cool but don't let it get close.

It almost sounds like a riddle. We know where comets come from, even though we've never seen their home.

Some comets come back into the inner solar system again and again every few decades. But some visit once and only once, slipping close to the sun and then evacuated from the solar system altogether. These comets are totally unpredictable. They come from random directions on the sky, and we don't even know they're there until they come close enough that the heat from the sun starts evaporating all of their ices, turning on their famous tails that stretch millions of miles.

These once-in-a-lifetime comets approach from a region of our solar system known as the Oort cloud, named after Jan Oort, the guy who first figured it out. The Oort cloud lies well beyond the orbit of any planet. Our rough estimates put the inner boundary at somewhere around one or two thousand times further away from the sun than the Earth is. And the outermost edges? The Oort cloud could stretch as far as a lightyear away from our sun.

Like the name suggests, the Oort cloud is kind of cloudy, and surrounds our solar system like a wide but tenuous shell. Inside the Oort cloud there are trillions upon trillions of comets, each one just waiting for their chance to get destabilized from their orbit and come crashing into the inner solar system.

But we have never ever seen an object in the Oort cloud. So how do we know it exist?

Well Jan Oort gave us the answer. These kinds of comets appear from any direction on the sky without warning. So whatever their origin point is, it has to be outside the plane of the planets of our solar system.

After you watch a comet or two for long enough, you can reconstruct their orbit to figure out where they started from. And these irregulars comets all come from the starting point at least 1,000 times away further than the sun than the Earth is.

The conclusion: there is a reservoir of comets ready to rain down on us at a moment's notice. The Oort cloud.

The Oort Cloud Is Trying To Kill Us With Comets - Forbes

FOOTBALL: Comets unable to overcome slow start against Panthers – Kokomo Tribune

Posted on November 13, 2019 by Dook Domini

GREENTOWN Even as Easterns football team saw its historic season come to a screeching halt Friday night, the Comets had plenty of reasons not to hang their heads.

In the moments immediately following its 42-12 loss to No. 8 Eastbrook in the Class 2A Sectional 36 championship at Cogdell Field, No. 9 Eastern could look back at some of the games momentum shifts a 30-yard Comet field goal attempt veering just wide right, a botched punt attempt setting up the Panthers with prime position for a quick score, an errant pass to the end zone stalling a strong drive late in the third quarter and realize they were still within a pair of scores early in the second half against one of the states most successful programs.

11-8-19 Eastern vs Eastbrook sectional football championship Nolan Grubb runs the ball. Kelly Lafferty Gerber | Kokomo Tribune

11-8-19 Eastern vs Eastbrook sectional football championship Nathan Herr gets emotional in the huddle after the game. Kelly Lafferty Gerber | Kokomo Tribune

Eastern running back Zane Downing fights for yards against Eastbrook in the Class 2A Sectional 36 final Friday night at Greentown. Downing ran for 227 yards and a touchdown, but the Panthers downed the Comets 42-12.

11-8-19 Eastern vs Eastbrook sectional football championship Easterns Tallan Morrisett pushes Eastbrooks Ezekiel Binkard out of bounds. Kelly Lafferty Gerber | Kokomo Tribune

Eastern defensive players Makhai Reed (25) and Tallan Morrisett take down Eastbrook QB Dylan Bragg during Fridays game.

11-8-19 Eastern vs Eastbrook sectional football championship Easterns Makhai Reed runs the ball. Kelly Lafferty Gerber | Kokomo Tribune

11-8-19 Eastern vs Eastbrook sectional football championship Easterns Ethan Jones runs the ball. Kelly Lafferty Gerber | Kokomo Tribune

11-8-19 Eastern vs Eastbrook sectional football championship Zane Downing looks to outrun Eastbrooks defense. Kelly Lafferty Gerber | Kokomo Tribune

11-8-19 Eastern vs Eastbrook sectional football championship Zane Downing scores a touchdown for the Comets. Kelly Lafferty Gerber | Kokomo Tribune

11-8-19 Eastern vs Eastbrook sectional football championship Easterns Zane Downing runs the ball. Kelly Lafferty Gerber | Kokomo Tribune

11-8-19 Eastern vs Eastbrook sectional football championship Easterns Tallan Morrisett takes down Eastbrooks Ezekiel Binkerd. Kelly Lafferty Gerber | Kokomo Tribune

11-8-19 Eastern vs Eastbrook sectional football championship Easterns Karson West takes down Eastbrooks Justin Starr. Kelly Lafferty Gerber | Kokomo Tribune

11-8-19 Eastern vs Eastbrook sectional football championship Easterns Ethan Jones runs the ball. Kelly Lafferty Gerber | Kokomo Tribune

11-8-19 Eastern vs Eastbrook sectional football championship Kelly Lafferty Gerber | Kokomo Tribune