FRIEND:
Kent,
FRIEND:
pardon the intrusion...but...
FRIEND:
what the hell happened to
Venus??????
FRIEND:
that mpeg is unreal...
BARDSQUILL:
gadz, I dunno
FRIEND:
holy shiznit. keep us informed.
thanks.
BARDSQUILL:
had some speculation that the
comet slingshotted to Venus
BARDSQUILL:
Date: 5/31/00 10:52:34 AM Pacific
Daylight Time
Depending on velocity, direction and proximity of 76P/West comet in relationship
to the planet Mars, is it not
extremely possible that the gravity well of Mars may slingshot the comet
into a new orbital path and boost it's
velocity in the same manner in which we used the planetary gravity well of
Venus to slingshot the Cassini probe
toward Jupiter?
FRIEND:
well i follow this stuff reasonably
closely and i have n*e*v*e*r seen anything like that venus mpeg. if there
isn't another object involved, something very weird just may have happenned...
BARDSQUILL:
If so, and depending on it's
escape velocity, (if it escapes Mars) how close of an encounter might
76P/West potentially have with Venus a few weeks later? Could a Mars-Venus
double bank-shot (and the Sun's
influence) result re-aiming the comet towards earth? I would think it would
be a one in a million chance, but a
remote possibility all the same. Just asking?
BARDSQUILL:
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FRIEND:
yes...read that on your site
earlier this week...and just read the mill group's most recent posting...
BARDSQUILL:
Had another speculate the comet
would slingshot to earth
FRIEND:
read that too...we need more
info....
FRIEND:
too bad the jerks and liars
keep all the real data for their own greedy selves...
BARDSQUILL:
THING IS. I've been watching
Kohoutek since '73
FRIEND:
no kiddin? what started that!!!???
BARDSQUILL:
Tellin ya, this comet ain't
no ordinary comet
BARDSQUILL:
more like Darth Vader's deathstar
FRIEND:
oh, jeeez...now you know i've
gotta ask...why???
FRIEND:
do you mean...artificial???
BARDSQUILL:
In mid-Seventies was a huge
fuss over the arrival of kohoutek, speculation was that the tail would span
the entire sky, based on it's position near the sun as viewed from earth,
BUT...
FRIEND:
nibiru?
BARDSQUILL:
when the comet reached its
whatchmacallit, perihelion
FRIEND:
mid seventies...i was 10 years
old or so and just starting to get interested in this stuff...never stopped...yes
perihelion...
BARDSQUILL:
there was no outgassing, I mean
ZILCH
FRIEND:
hmmmm?
FRIEND:
did anyone ever address it?
BARDSQUILL:
was there but no tail
FRIEND:
i mean really address it...???
BARDSQUILL:
they addressed it like this,
DUHHHH, we dunno what's goin on, then they dubbed it the "Bubblegum Comet."
Speculating that it musta dormed a protective shell like gum around it, sheesh,
thought that was a dum explanation then, still do.
BARDSQUILL:
ALSO Kohoutek has always had
a bad habit of appearing and disappearing from view in its weird approach
trajectory.
BARDSQUILL:
So when I heard that Kohoutek
was coming into the game again, I WENT ON NO NOT AGAIN!
FRIEND:
unbelievable.
FRIEND:
and the sun...cannot be a
coinkydink...
BARDSQUILL:
thing is it was a VERY BIG DEAL
IN THE 70S. I was teaching at the time and everybody was doing a very close
watch.
FRIEND:
well, damn kent. you've made
my weekend. nice chattin' with ya. i'll keep tuned into the site
BARDSQUILL:
later
FRIEND:
and thanks again for all your
incredible work...your site is my home...keep us up to date...if you can...
BARDSQUILL:
puttin updates in place now
FRIEND:
great. take care.
