The words in the table all have some astronomical significance.

Each may be slid up or down within the grid at will. By doing so you are to create a row which contains a phrase which is relevant to the subject.

How many such phrases can you discover?

		P
H		U				M
Y	C	L	P	E		E		S		M
D	O	S	L	N		R		P		A
R	R	A	A	E		C	P	E		T
U	O	R	N	R	V	U	H	C	L	T
S	N		E	G	E	R	O	T	E	E
	A		T	Y	N	Y	B	R	P	R
			S		U		O	U	U
					S		S	M	S

All at Sea contained a distractor from the solution, no such thing exists here.

(In reply to solution(s) by Dej Mar)

Dej Mar, the entry "HALEYSCOMET" was intentional and not meant as a "red herring".

In another comment here I made note of differences in spelling, HALEY - HALLEY.

I had always known the object to be called "Haley's Comet", pronunciation as in the 1960's band "Bill Haley and the Comets".

I do note in a search just before this reply that Encyclopedia Britannica on-Line refers to the astronomer as "Halley", so I guess there a lot of people around who have the same misconception of the man's name.

Apologies for that.

Posted by brianjn on 2009-12-17 03:35:20