[meteorite-list] Newly Spotted Comet Will Soon Grace Night Skies (Comet C/2002 C1 - Ikeya-Zhang)

From: trandall_at_idsi.net <trandall_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:54:10 2004
Message-ID: <a05100300b89cad9a3001_at_[216.91.17.43]>

  Hi Al and gang,
    I know I'm a few days late on this thread but I wasn't
disappointed with Halley at all in '86, it was the first comet I saw
with my own eyes and I was blown away. Of coarse Hyakutake and
Hale-Bopp blew it away but still in all Halley put on a fine show for
me here in N.Y. Better than I thought it would.

And there are a number of my Hale-Bopp photos on Ron's Hale-Bopp JPL
site. Thanks once again Ron!

Regards,
Tom Randall
IMCA# 6170


>Hi Ron and all,
>
>Ron Baalke wrote:
>
>>>The 1986 appearance of Halley's comet, considered disappointing by many,<<
>>>also peaked at around magnitude 3.0<<
>
>
>Although the news media hyped up Comet Halley, comparing it to its
>1910 return which was
>favorable, to most astronomers the brightness was much better than
>expected even though it
>wasn't a favorable return that year and being farther from the
>Earth. So generally people
>were disappointed, thanks to the news media but astronomers weren't
>disappointed with the
>show overall.
>
>--AL

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Received on Fri 22 Feb 2002 09:28:01 PM PST