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09-July-2003, 12:17 AM
The Bad Astronomer
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My Bitesize essays about Frank were written early on, when I first heard of his claims. I should really re-write them, or append them: Louis Frank is as wrong as wrong can be. I have seen his claims, read papers, and years ago decided his claims are utterly incorrect. I found several articles on the web; here is one about seeing them from the ground (search on "frank"), and here is another.

The bottom line is that we should see them, lots of them, all the time. We can't. So, unless they are magic (like Nancy Lieder's Planet X), they don't exist.

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see also:

http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/badminicomet.html
http://www.badastronomy.com/bitesize/minicomet.html

Gawrsh. Color me confused(again; lots of material here). It would seem as though Frank's hypothesis has been more or less proven??? And a question I asked way up this thread those months ago, why can't/don't we see this from the ground; even on a bluebird type day? Just a thought: these things are tiny by most any measure, so we wouldn't actually see the initial vaporization. By the time this vaporizaton is large enough to see, it's so thin as to be virtually invisible???

Anyway, thanks for an interesting update.

FGS