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Re: IN SYMPATHY to the Hale-Bopp Cooperative


Article: <5ehqte$kof@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com>
From: saquo@ix.netcom.com(Nancy )
Subject: Re: IN SYMPATHY to the Hale-Bopp Cooperative
Date: 20 Feb 1997 15:34:06 GMT

In article <5efhae$ch9@news.bu.edu> Jeremy Hallum writes:
> 1) Hale-Bopp is still outgassing!!!! It started outgassing out
> at 7 odd AU
> 2) And, oh, if it is outgassing, it must have a tail (doy!).
> 4) Distant stars DO NOT MOVE, ... So your ideas about us
> moving a novae to where the comet should be is totally
> and utterly groundless.
> jhallum@bu.edu (Jeremy Hallum)

1. It was supposedly outgassing at 14 AU, so that McNaught could find it on this 1993 image. 14 AU. At a distance where comets DO NOT outgas.
2. And if what people are seeing is just any convenient unmapped star that happens to be near or on the orbit, then it does NOT have a tail, as has been the case.
4. You misunderstand what the Zetas said. They said what was being pointed to in 1995 was a nova, and it wasn't a naked eye nova as fairly high powered telescopes had to be used to see it. Thereafter the orbit was plotted to go into Sagittarius which is a swamp of unmapped stars, and then plotted to go round the Sun at such an angle that the lack of a tail could be explained away.