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Article: <5htqhk$s39@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com>
From: saquo@ix.netcom.com(Nancy)
Subject: Hale-Bopp's DISTANCE?
Date: 2 Apr 1997 14:30:12 GMT
In article: <5hc42d$oui$3@mark.ucdavis.edu> Jedidiah Whitten writes:
>> at the distance claimed by the conspirators. Hale-Bopp's
>> small size, in comparison to Hyakutake last years, for
>> instance, is explained away by DISTANCE.
>> (End ZetaTalk[TM])
>
> Nancy, make some observations of your own, calculate the orbit,
> and figure out exactly how far away H-B really is. Give us the
> math to back it up.
> ez049941@boris.ucdavis.edu (Jedidiah Whitten)
(Begin ZetaTalk[TM])
You cannot use MATH to prove or disprove the distance of an object in space moving slowly! Small
object close in or large object far away, without further clues one CANNOT determine distance of an
astronomical object.