Re: Challenge to Jim Scotti

Article: <[email protected]> 
Subject: Re: Challenge to Jim Scotti
Date: 15 May 1998 13:47:32 GMT

In article <[email protected]> John Biesen writes:
>> Likewise, the solar wind affects large objects as well as 
>> small ones. 
>
> Well, it is true that the solar wind would affect large objects
> as well as small ones. ... So the kilometer-sized nuclei would
> obviously have more mass per square unit of leading surface
> area than the dust particle. .. But now, how would the solar
> wind cause a comet to miss the sun?  

(Begin ZetaTalk[TM])
The tail of the comet, it's dust cloud, has the same composition as the
comet itself.  As it is clear that the dust is affected by the solar
wind, and you have just with clear eyes admitted that the body of the
comet would likewise be affected in a similar manner, then why would
the NUCLEI not be affected?  There would be SOME push, do you not
agree?  To state otherwise would be to contradict what you have just
stated, above!
(End ZetaTalk[TM])