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Re: IN SYMPATHY to the Hale-Bopp Cooperative


Article: <5fmoas$g90@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com>
From: saquo@ix.netcom.com(Nancy )
Subject: Re: IN SYMPATHY to the Hale-Bopp Cooperative
Date: 6 Mar 1997 15:37:00 GMT

In article <5fimoa$gg2@news.Hawaii.Edu> Dave Tholen writes:
>> The issue of a tightened eccentricity at the time when the
>> orbit of Hale-Bopp was SIMULTANEOUSLY being given
>> a leap away from Jupiter of 3 arc minutes, which would
>> give Hale-Bopp a WIDENED, not tightened eccentricity,
>> ZetaTalk[TM]
>
> Don Yeomans didn't say anything about the comet leaping away
> from Jupiter. That's strictly your misinterpretation of the orbital
> elements.

JPL put forth, in their own words, the fact that the Hale-Bopp orbit had Hale Bopp supposedly SEEN, OBSERVED, at Dec -15 09 20 S on May 28, when Jupiter was at Dec -22 19 03 S. Then on June 27, Hale-Bopp was supposedly SEEN, OBSERVED, to be at Dec -12 17 04 when Jupiter was at Dec -22 48 45 S, A LEAP AWAY FROM JUPITER of 3 arc minutes!

JUPITER May 28, 1996 RA: 19 12 51 Dec: 22 19 03 S
JUPITER June 27, 1996 RA: 18 59 41 Dec: 22 48 45 S

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Per May 28, '96 JPL posted Orbital Elements and Observations:

HALE-BOPP May 28, '96 RA: 19 31 44 Dec: 15 09 20 S
Distance from JUPITER is RA: 00 18 53 Dec: 07 09 43

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Per June 27, '96 JPL posted Orbital Elements and Observations:

HALE-BOPP May 28, '96 RA: 19 0 10 Dec: 12.21.35 S
Distance from JUPITER is RA: 00 12 41 Dec: 09 57 28
     
HALE-BOPP Jun 27, '96 RA: 19 00 09 Dec: 12 17 04 S
Distance from JUPITER is RA: 00 00 28 Dec: 10 31 41