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In article: <5ee4qj$mvl@sjx-ixn3.ix.netcom.com>
From: saquo@ix.netcom.com(Nancy )
Subject: Re: Hale-Bopp THEN and NOW (1-6)
Date: 19 Feb 1997 05:58:43 GMT
In article <5ecq8t$12ns@news.ccit.arizona.edu> Jim
Scotti writes:
>> ISSUE 3: The supposed fragmentation that the Hale-Bopp
>> fraud was undergoing in late 1995, causing chunks of the
>> nucleus to break off, has now stopped. Is thisthe way
>> fragmenting comets behave? Out past Jupiter they outgas
>> and fragment and when close to the sun, stop this
activity?
>> Isn't this backward?
>>
>> ISSUE 4: Why doesn't the supposed fragmented chunk of
the
>> nucleus ever separate? In fact, the description of what
was
>> supposed to be the Hale-Bopp comet in1995 perfectly fits
the
>> description of a nova, with the rapid expansion and then
quick
>> fading, the swirling pinwheels and all.
>
> I have yet to see really good evidence of a real
fragmentation
> event, though I have seen signs of ejections of knots of
debris
> that are probably unbound clumps of debris blown off in some
> event on the nucleus - not uncommon behavior for active
comets.
> Any real fragments will slowly separate from the comet and
> may eventually fade from visibility. There are many well
> observed examples of cometary fragmentation, such as with
> comet P/Machholz 2 a couple years ago as well as comet West
> more than 20 years ago amongst many others.
> jscotti@LPL.Arizona.EDU (Jim Scotti)
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You're dancing all around this issue, without addressing it!
"Unbound clumps of debris"? Where was this debris just
before it separated from the so-called comet? Unbound? Did it
arrive at the point just outside the Solar System, just waiting
to lift and waft off? This is as unlikely as dust on the back of
a high speed trail suddenly deciding to waft off in thick masses
as the train approached the train station in view of the masses.
Comets to indeed fragment when they have been reduced over
time such that the ice holding their parts together weakens under
the heat of the Sun, causing a breakup. However, the pattern IN
ALL CASES is that the closer the comet gets to the Sun, the more
fragmentation occurs. What has been touted for Hale-Bopp is the
extreme opposite of that scenario! Fragmentation out where the
Sun does NOT warm comets, with all this activity settling down to
the point of disappearing as the so-called comet passes the Sun,
TWICE! Not only unlikely, Not only unheard of, not even possible!
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