When ice is placed on a hot metal plate it melts, but the meltwater does not experience the Leidenfrost effect until hundreds of degrees higher than for wa
"I have announced this star as a comet, but since it is not accompanied by any nebulosity and, further, since its movement is so slow and rather uniform, it has occurred to me several times that it might be something better than a comet. But I have been careful not to advance this supposition to the public." -Giuseppe Piazzi, discoverer of Ceres, the first Asteroid