Comets

Remember the Houston Comets? 

They were one of the most successful (on the court) teams in Houston history, and with back-to-back championships in 1997, 98, 99 and 2000, they were the winning-est team in the WNBA.  Even when featuring some of the best women ever to play the game, winning doesn’t always translate into dollars, and the team was disbanded in 2008 when nobody could be found to buy the franchise.

I always thought that Comets was a great name for a team.

I thought of them this morning when I read a Reuters story that says that Swiss scientists have determined that comets really stink! Researchers at the University of Bern, in Switzerland, determined the odor of the comet known as 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko  by analyzing the chemicals in its coma, the fuzzy head surrounding the nucleus. They say that comets smell like a mixture of rotten eggs, horse urine, formaldehyde, bitter almonds, alcohol, and vinegar, with a hint of sweet ether.