Hi, Thanks for the try, but I was hoping some observatory would do spectra on this outburst. Since the last outburst was in 1893, there would be no spectroscopy since!
This would explain why it wasn't in even the most complete references. Holmes has been coma-free until now. I just hope somebody somewhere in a professional facility finds a hole in their schedule (big telescopes being scheduled to the minute months ahead) and does one. The gases of the coma of Holmes may be a perfectly conventional mixture -- or not. Never know unless you do some measurements. Generally the head of the coma (being dust) is just reflected sunlight anyway; you need a nice tail to identify the gases, and Holmes has not yet "grown" a tail, poor puppy. And even if it does, we may not be well-positioned to view it. Would be nice to know, though... Sterling K. Webb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chauncey Walden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 10:15 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Comet Holmes Sterling Webb wrote: > (Has anybody done spectra for Holmes?! A little IR would > be nice.) Sterling, that reminded me that I have a large book with a large title - "Atlas of Representative Cometary Spectra". I checked and although it had data for lots of comets (including Encke), it didn't have Holmes. Sorry. Chauncey ______________________________________________ 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
