Word: cloudcroft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...July 23, 1995, Alan Hale, who has a Ph.D. in astronomy and makes his living running a research and educational company, was scanning the skies above his home in Cloudcroft, New Mexico. He was waiting for an already discovered comet to rise over his house when he trained his telescope on M70, a well-known cluster of stars in the constellation Sagittarius. "As soon as I looked," he says, "I saw a fuzzy object nearby. It was strange, because I'd looked at M70 a couple of weeks earlier and the object hadn't been there...