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Re: IN SYMPATHY to the Hale-Bopp Cooperative


Article: <5ejdgs$b29@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com>
From: saquo@ix.netcom.com(Nancy )
Subject: Re: IN SYMPATHY to the Hale-Bopp Cooperative
Date: 21 Feb 1997 05:57:48 GMT

In article <5eijoh$3c8@news.Hawaii.Edu> David Tholen writes:
>> 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.
>
> Incorrect. Chiron was outgassing at that distance. Halley was
> outgassing at that distance.
> tholen@ifa.hawaii.edu

We've been through this a zillion times, David, BUT NOT PRIOR TO PERIHELION!!