Summary of The Comet -1
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The plot concerns a journey by a spaceship to enter through the layers of gas surrounding a comet and observe the nucleus at close range. This part of the mission is successful, but the ship's computer develops a malfunction and they are unable to compute the required orbit to escape the comet.
Duttada’s passion for star-gazing
Duttada’s wife, Indrani Debi, woke up due to a draft of cool air from the window on a December night. She found her husband missing from the bed and complained she was sure he would be spending time with ‘Dibya’. She knew her husband had ignored the doctor’s instructions of avoiding cold and even forgotten to wear his sweater. She covered herself with a shawl and carried his pullover to the roof, where he was busy star-gazing. He had christened his telescope Dibya Chakshu or the Divine Eye. Indrani Debi jealously regarded it as a woman with whom her husband spent too much time. She started calling it Dibya.
Duttada’s ambition as an amateur astronomer
Duttada was an amateur astronomer who fulfilled his lifelong wish of owning a telescope with his retirement money. He now had enough free time to spend many a nights observing the stars. He secretly hoped to discover a comet one day. Comets could be new and did not have fixed orbits like the planets. They had a long tail lit brightly by the sunlight. They sometimes came close to the Sun to again vanish for years or centuries.
He knew he had an eight-inch telescope and the professional ones were huge. Still, he had hope of discovering a new comet. The professionals followed assigned tasks of looking at heavenly bodies and could.
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