[meteorite-list] Comet Holmes

[Jerry]

Unfortunately, prophetically true.
Jerry Flaherty
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Jerry" <grf2 at verizon.net>; "Chris Peterson" <clp at alumni.caltech.edu>; 
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
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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