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Article: <[email protected]>
From: [email protected](Nancy )
Subject: The MANY FACES of Hale-Bopp - SIZE
Date: 17 Mar 1997 03:22:54 GMT
My, my, how things change. Are we looking at the same comet? The Zetas have said that the Hale-Bopp conspiracy was to point folks in the wrong direction, AWAY from Orion, in 1995. The Zetas have stated that a convenient nova was used and a likely comet located by Hubble or NEAT program. The Zetas have said that the two were connected by a paper orbit, which was then plotted back in time to a place where McNaught's image was altered to confirm the paper orbit. Between the nova's natural death in 1995 and the arrival of the comet they KNEW would appear at this time, there were orbit manipulations to line the paper orbit up with star clusters or during June and July, 1996, with another real comet in the comet belt. The Hubble has SUCH a clear view, and the NEAT program keeps an eye on dark moving things so much better than amateur comet hunters.
How has the SIZE of the many faces of Hale-Bopp changed, from 1995 to the present?
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AUGUST 1995
European Southern Observatory
http://www.eso.org/
The Enormous Size of Comet Hale-Bopp
30 August 1995
This series of three photos of the unusual Comet Hale-Bopp demonstrates that the comet is much larger than thought so far. In fact, its nucleus is surrounded by a dust cloud that measures more than 2.5 million kilometres across. Note that because of the wide field they represent, each of the images is available in two sizes, the larger of which has considerably better resolution.
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AUGUST 1995
Posted on sci.astro by [email protected] (Ron Baalke)
PR 10/95 25 August 1995
European Southern Observatory
For immediate release
NEW DISTANT COMET HEADED FOR BRIGHT ENCOUNTER
Within less than three days after the announcement of the discovery, more than 60 accurate positions had been measured, many by advanced amateur astronomers equipped with modern CCD-detectors and the appropriate computer programmes. On this basis, Dan Green of the CBAT published a first, highly uncertain parabolic orbit. To some surprise, it showed that the comet was located at a heliocentric distance of no less than 1,000 million kilometres, well beyond the orbit of Jupiter! It was immediately obvious that it must therefore be intrinsically very bright. Indeed, it was about 250 times brighter than Comet Halley when this famous object was observed at the same distance in late 1987!
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MARCH 1997
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
(Phone: 301/286-0697)
Diane Ainsworth/Jane Platt
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
(Phone: 818/354-5011)
Keith Koehler
Wallops Flight Facility, VA
(Phone: 757/824-1579)
NASA PLANS COMET HALE-BOPP OBSERVING CAMPAIGN, ACTIVITIES
Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, Hale-Bopp's nucleus was measured at roughly three to four times larger than that of comet Halley (six miles in diameter), making it one of the largest comets ever observed.