Amazing Stories: Gershwin’s Trunk
The 41st episode of Steven Spielberg’s anthology series Amazing Stories airs on NBC. Bob Balaban (Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, 2010: The Year We Make Contact) guest stars in an episode co-written and directed by Paul Bartel.
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Pioneer Venus eyes Comet Wilson
A victory lap after its successful study of Halley’s Comet in 1985 and 1986, the Pioneer Venus Orbiter uses its unique position at the solar system’s second planet to observe another comet, the recently-discovered Comet Wilson. Spotted for the first time only the year before, little is known about Comet Wilson, a lack of data that Pioneer Venus helps to correct by imaging the comet in the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum. Pioneer Venus will also study two other comets later in 1987.