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To: NormsRevenge

Meh.
The comet we saw while we were cruising back home on the USS PELELIU through the Indian Ocean in '95 was bigger.
Place your palms together, put them over your head and open your arms about 3.5 feet.
That was how big that comet was. I learned years later that it had some Japanese name starting with the letter, "H." But I called it my Birthday Comet since that's when it arrived.


9 posted on 10/26/2006 10:06:22 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
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To: RandallFlagg

Comet Hyakutake

http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/comet/hyakutake/

and for lots of images

http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/comet/hyakutake/images.html


10 posted on 10/26/2006 10:48:08 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ...... http://www.pendleton8.com/ ...... http://www.bootmurtha.com/ .. FRee Moooomia)
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