Crossword-Solution: THETA 5 letters, 162 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

ASCII to Greek A,a alpha B,b beta G,g gamma D,d delta E,e epsilon Z,z zeta H,h eta Q,q theta I,i iota K,k kappa L,l lambda M,m mi/mu N,n ni/nu J,j ksi/xi O,o omikron/omicron P,p pi R,r rho S,s,c sigma T,t tau U,u ypsilon/upsilon F,f phi X,x chi/khi Y,y psi W,w omega ‘,‘,/,\,^ Accents, follow the vowel.

But where were the rest of the assets of these bankrupt comets? They were probably scattered around in space, _disjecta membra_, floating hither and thither, in one place a stream of stones, in another a volume of gas; while the two heads had fled away, like the fugitive presidents of a couple of broken banks, to the Canadian refuge of "_Theta Centauri_"--shorn of their splendors and reduced to first principles.

Two are marked alpha [Footnote: The Greek alphabet runs: alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu, xi, omicron, pi, rho, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, chi, psi, omega.], two beta, two more gamma, and so on, if the competitors run to more than that--two lots always to each letter.

But suppose we were to pick out five letters at random, say chi, sigma, zeta, kappa, theta, and duplicate the other four on the lots for eight competitors, but put a single zeta on the ninth, which we meant to indicate the bye--what then would you do if you came on the zeta first? How can you tell that its holder is the bye till you have been all round and found no counterpart to it? for you could not tell by the alphabetical order, as at Olympia.

Klinkerfues, of Göttingen, telegraphed to Pogson, of Madras: _“Biela touched earth; search near Theta Centauri.”_ Pogson searched in the place indicated and saw a cometary mass retreating into the southern heavens, where it was soon swallowed from sight! [Illustration: Section of the atmosphere up to 100 kilometers.