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Comet Rain Debate Continues

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Subject: Comet Rain Debate Continues
From: Ron Baalke <BAALKE@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 17:30:35 GMT
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Comet rain debate continues
Review of data indicates that the cause is noise

A constant rain of comets pelting the Earth is probably just noise
common to many scientific instruments, according to a scientist at
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. In a paper to be presented today at
the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Dr. James Spann says
that images of comet impacts are random events common to instruments
using image intensifiers like night-vision goggles.

The full story, plus copies of announcements from three universities
involved in the small comets debate, is at

http://science.msfc.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast09dec97_1.htm

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