Unfortunately, prophetically true.
Jerry Flaherty
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sterling K. Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jerry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Chris Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 8:56 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Comet Holmes
Hi,
does not preclude the possibility of
getting wacked twice in 100+ years
Are you saying that some of us are just unlucky?
Sterling K. Webb
Holmes is a prime example of this. We think that it never gets
close enough to the Sun to explain the outbursts, but both the
discovery outburst and the present one occured after perihelion
passage with some delay. In both the discovery brightening and
the present one, the delay was five months! (June 16, 1892 to
November 6, 1892 -- 143 days; with a second outburst of equal
brilliance 60 days later. May 4, 2007 to October 24, 2007 --
173 days. A 60-day second outburst would make Holmes
a Christmas Comet.)
Does perihelion warming trigger some internal mechanism
that takes about five months to "boil up"? Or does Holmes catch
up with a stream of significant debris (a collisional association)
about five months after perihelion and sometimes interact
collisionally with it?
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