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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. |