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Re: (meteorobs) Hale/Bopp Obser 2/15/97
In a message dated 97-02-22 15:10:03 EST, you write:
<< Ron,
>I also see the two tails...but one jet.
>George Zay
>
Geo
What is the difference between a tail and a jet? I guess I have been using
the two words interchangeably.
Ron
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Ron,
I don't know what the official definitions are, but I see a single jet of gas
streaming from the south side of the nucleus..dot it curves around the south
side and makes up the southerly tail that I see. But I do not see any jets
coming off from the nucleus on the North side...just a small ball like coma
surrounding the nucleus where the tail evolves from a diffuse region of the
coma...not the nucleus. I consider a jet to be the material that is actually
streaming away from the nucleus as an apparent stream.
George Zay