Out in the void it moved. A huge rock tumbling in the deep recesses of space, out in the void, where speed was impossible to know? It just tumbled along, unaware of anything? It didn't know where it was headed, and it did not know from where it had come? It just moved along in the cold blackness, as it had done forever before!
Back on earth, a young Doctor was watching, but at first, he did not see it? There was a disturbance in that quadrant, he had seen a flash before, but only for a moment. After seeing this for the third time, he convinced himself that it was real, and he set about reading the charts, and began the calculations of the trajectories of all the named meteors, know to have been seen in this part of the sky. It had taken him months, but finally, he knew with certainty, that this flash, this anomaly, if in fact it did exist, was a new asteroid, a meteors that he could name!
Forty years ago was the first time that he had seen it, and it wasn't until just six months ago, that he had finally seen it again! This time, with the digital pictures, and computer aimed telescopes, he saw things with a clarity unimagined with his old observatory.
But now, on this his very first sighting since so long ago, he knew immediately what it was, he knew that it was his baby, his discovery from what seemed so long ago!
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