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Alien comets? Next you will hear that there are Klingons surrounding Uranus.
1 posted on 12/03/2008 9:41:38 AM PST by Fractal Trader
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Isn’t the correct term undocumented migrant celestial body? How long before Ted Kennedy and John McCain co-author a bill to grant the comet a path to citizenship of our solar system?


27 posted on 12/03/2008 2:03:51 PM PST by VRWCmember
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David Schleicher of the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, measured the chemical makeup of 150 comets, and found that they all had similar levels of the chemical cyanogen (CN) except for Machholz 1, which has less than 1.5% of the normal level. Along with some other comets, it is also low on the molecules carbon2 and carbon3.

33 posted on 12/05/2008 4:45:47 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile finally updated Saturday, October 11, 2008 !!!)
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No, that’s politically incorrect! The right term is “undocumented comet”.


34 posted on 12/05/2008 5:00:42 PM PST by rfp1234 (Phodopus campbelli: household ruler since July 2007.)
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