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Comet Hale-Bopp May Have A Satellite
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- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 17:58:45 GMT
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Hale-Bopp may have a satellite
By Robert Roy Britt, explorezone.com.
November 23, 1999
The suggestion that comet Hale-Bopp might have a satellite orbiting its
nucleus, based on Hubble Space Telescope images, has resurfaced amid doubts.
Reporting in the current issue of Earth, Moon, and Planets, an international
journal, Zdenek Sekanina of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory writes about a
Hale-Bopp satellite detected by applying theoretical modeling to images
taken with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on five days during 1996.
If further research confirms the satellite, it would be the first known
cometary satellite discovered in a stable orbit, Sekanina said in a
telephone interview.
Full story here:
http://explorezone.com/archives/99_11/23_hale_bopp.htm
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