(meteorobs) Comparing comets

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• Subject: (meteorobs) Comparing comets
• From: Thomas Ashcraft <72632.1427@compuserve.com>
• Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 15:56:02 -0500
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I wonder why Comet Hyakutake had a prominent turquoise colored coma and
Hale-Bopp doesn't?  Different gases? Or gas/dust ratio? Or distance from
earth...or?

It is interesting that individual comets appear in the inner solar system
and have different properties. I wonder if meteor observations could
distinguish cometary species by meteor properties?  

Also would like to recommend a new sci-fi book : 3001, The Final Oddysey by
Arthur C. Clarke.  Lots of good comet, asteroid and impact observations
from an off-planet and future vantage point. 

Tom Ashcraft---New Mexico  

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