According to Chris, the coma is about 3.3 arc minutes across, or 230,000 kilometers. The very brightest part is about 2.8 arc minutes or 196,000 km across. Chris has a light curve on his website (URL below.
Sterling K. Webb ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sterling K. Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Meteorite List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 11:17 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] MORE COMET HOLMES Hi, All List member Chris Peterson is too busy observing Holmes to post it here (rightfully), but his website has excellent pictures of the comet and a lot of up-to-date information: http://www.cloudbait.com/gallery/comet/holmes.html Everyone mention that a tail "has not yet formed," but if you look at the NASA-JPL orbit simulation: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=17P;orb=1 you'll see that any tail (which by default points away from the Sun) would point away from the Earth at a very similar angle. The tail would (will) have to be fairly long before we got our first glimpse of it and... the coma is in the way, too. Sterling K. Webb ---------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
