New Rule: no astronomer shall be allowed to use the following adjective...

[Bucky]

(image added on edit, cause it looks cool)

NASA ANNOUNCES SPECTACULAR DAY OF THE COMET

NASA via BBSNews - 2005-06-09 -- After a voyage of 173 days and 268 million miles, NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft will get up-close-and-personal with comet Tempel 1 on July 4.

The first of its kind, hyper-speed impact between space-borne iceberg and copper-fortified probe is scheduled for approximately 1:52 a.m. EDT on Independence Day. The potentially spectacular collision will be observed by the Deep Impact spacecraft, ground and space-based observatories.

"We are really threading the needle with this one," said Rick Grammier, Deep Impact project manager at JPL. "In our quest of a great scientific payoff, we are attempting something never done before at speeds and distances that are truly out of this world."

Ok, "really threading the needle" was cliche enough to get a
spokesman fired. But has anyone seriously used the phrase
"truly out of this world" since the Apollo program?

[nickgutierrez]

1. That's a truly awful pun...

I mean, the vast majority of them are bad, but this one is just terrible.