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The leader of the vomit-eaters is the common housefly. The fly tastes with its feet, vomits on the food, and then laps up the vomit and food


Heavenly Tail


Heavenly Tail
Measurements taken by the Ulysses spacecraft in 1990 show that the longest comet tail ever recorded is possessed by Comet Hyakutake. An article in the journal "Nature reports that the comet, seen in 1996, has a tail that is 565 million km long - this is almost 4 times the distance of the Earth from the Sun. The previous record-holder was the Great March Comet of 1843, which had a tail that was twice the distance from the Earth to the Sun.
19 APRIL 2000
The Globe and Mail
19 APRIL 2000

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