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- From: palmer@sfu.ca (Leigh Palmer)
- Subject: Re: Duncan Steel on Swift-Tuttle
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.191123.1077@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University
- References: <1992Nov4.153740.1@uwovax.uwo.ca> <rabjab.212.720926413@golem.ucsd.edu>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 19:11:23 GMT
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- In article <rabjab.212.720926413@golem.ucsd.edu> rabjab@golem.ucsd.edu (Jeff
- Bytof) writes:
- >
- >>(3) There has been a lot of bull written in these columns about
- >> P/Swift-Tuttle and whether it will hit the Earth and what the
- >> consequences might be.
- >
- >How true. I have not yet seen ONE independent confirmation of
- >the orbital calculations and a sober error analysis. For all we
- >know, this could be somebody's mistake.
-
- You should learn to read. #5636 reports an independent calculation done by S.
- Nakano which agrees with Marsden's.
-
- When the source literature is so accessible (and when it has been made more
- even accessible by posting here in this case), and when the reputation of the
- scientist is as high as is that of Brian Marsden, there is no excuse for an
- irresponsible suggestion like this.
-
- Leigh
-