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a dirty snowball flung sunward, growing a tail of pure cosmic exhibitionism.
tail directionalways points away from sun, never behind motion
halley's returnswings by every 76 years, missable in one life
compositionice, dust, rock — leftover crumbs from planet-building
tail lengthcan stretch over 100 million kilometers
ancient omensonce feared as harbingers of kings dying