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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Melissa Bearns / The Bulletin
April 6, 2002
It was almost midnight and local astronomer Richard Norton had just come in from observing the comet Ikeya-Zhang.
Nestled among a few trees southeast of Bend, his salmon pink English Tudor style house with its exposed chocolate-colored beams sticks out of the dusty green and lava rock-filled....