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Article: <[email protected]>
From: [email protected](Nancy )
Subject: Re: IN SYMPATHY to the Hale-Bopp Cooperative
Date: 21 Feb 1997 05:59:01 GMT
In article <[email protected]> Eric Kline
writes:
> Nancy, you keep making that claim about comets not
outgassing
> beyond a certain distance. In light of the existance of ice
geysers
> on Triton, .. Triton is a moon of Neptune. ... When
> Voyager 2 flew by Neptune (I forget the year) it imaged
> Triton and one of the surprises it found was ice geysers
> (or ice volcanoes).
> eric kline <[email protected]>
Ever hear the phrase Comparing Apples to Apples, Eric, or the phrase, Comparing Apples to Oranges? No? I'm not surprised! What on earth does the close pass of a probe to a moon of Neptune have to do with outgassing of a comet at 14 AU as seen from Earth? You may be in sympathy to the Hale-Bopp cooperative, Eric, but you've really got to do better than this!