WOW DID YOU REALLY DELETE MY POST ON HOW THEY REALLY DIED.
That fucking funny as hell.
Brian G. Marsden, who for decades was the go-to guy for thousands of stargazers when a comet or an asteroid would streak through the heavens — or, by his calculations, was supposed to — died Thursday in Burlington, Mass. He was 73 and lived in Lexington, Mass.
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Evan Richman for The New York Times
Brian G. Marsden in 1998, during his 32-year tenure as director of the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams.
The cause was bone marrow disease, said his wife, Nancy.
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link to www.nytimes.com]
Allan R. Sandage who was one of the most influential astronomers of all times, died on Saturday when he was 84 years old. The Carnegie Observatory made the announcement, stating that the astronomer died because of the illness he was suffering from, pancreatic cancer.
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link to www.metrolic.com]
Show us one link saying they died some other way.