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Article: <[email protected]>
From: [email protected](Nancy )
Subject: Re: Hale-Bopp THEN and NOW (1-6)
Date: 20 Feb 1997 15:38:01 GMT
In article <[email protected]> Lamont
Granquist writes:
>> The issue is ascribing the RETURN of a first time comet.
>> PRIOR to Hale-Bopp this wasn't done, I believe, or at
least
>> was wildly speculative. AFTER Hale-Bopp this may have
>> been done somewhat by the IAU, due to the questions that
>> were raised about what it said re Hale-Bopp.
>
> It was done for Hyakutake. ... There is a really good
article
> by Bill Owen (<[email protected]>,
> 1996/02/27, sci.astro, sci.astro.amateur) entitled
"More on
> accuracy, precision, and the eccentricity of Hyakutake"
which
> discusses ... how speculative the period determination was.
> [email protected]
How sweet of him to make this statement about Hyakutake. However, his mouth is firmly sealed when it comes to Hale-Bopp. Why the DIFFERENCE? Talking down Hale-Bopp is forbidden if one is a JPL employee operating under a security clearance. These orbits may be speculative, but THE PUBLIC doesn't hear about that! The newspapers are still reporting the approximate 3-4,000 year period for the mythical Hale-Bopp!