[meteorite-list] Comet Holmes

From: Chris Peterson <clp_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:19:12 -0600
Message-ID: <064501c81b7d$9a00e130$0a01a8c0_at_bellatrix>

Some preliminary spectrometry is reported on here:
http://menkescientific.com/Comet17P-Holmes.pdf

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Chauncey Walden" <clwaldeniii at comcast.net>;
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 11:12 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Comet Holmes


> 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
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Received on Wed 31 Oct 2007 01:19:12 AM PDT