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To: Jeff Chandler

I am hoping that it will be even more impressive that Hale-Bopp. That was one impressive looking comet.


6 posted on 07/18/2013 9:51:59 AM PDT by Sopater (Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
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To: Sopater
I am hoping that it will be even more impressive that Hale-Bopp.

Ahh...memories. I remember watching it with a cheap Tasco telescope out the second floor window of our first house with my then 6 year old son.

He was enthralled. It got him hooked on science and astronomy for life. He's 2 years out of college now and we have some lively discussions about cosmology and theoretical physics when he visits.

17 posted on 07/18/2013 10:07:01 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Anywhere there is tyranny you will find that the people were first disarmed.)
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To: Sopater

Time to get some new Nikes.


18 posted on 07/18/2013 10:10:19 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: Sopater

Hale Bopp. PBTTTT.
I want to see a tail, not just a fuzzy dot.


22 posted on 07/18/2013 10:22:35 AM PDT by dangus (Poverty cannot be eradicated as long as the poor remain dependent on the state - Pope Francis)
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To: Sopater
I am hoping that it will be even more impressive that Hale-Bopp.

One can only hope wonder how many more looney-tune New Age hope 'n changers will decide to 'jump on board' Heavens Gate-style.

29 posted on 07/18/2013 10:39:56 AM PDT by Noumenon (What would Michael Collins do?)
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Comet Hyakutake was a better view, because it was closer. I watched it every night for nearly a month as it flew by the Earth. Hale-Bopp was smaller and brighter, but also closer to the horizon.

-PJ

36 posted on 07/18/2013 11:03:31 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Sopater

Hale-Bop was pretty cool

I had to drive far away from the city, because when I looked up (at my house) I saw nothing

I was expecting a small splotch of light with a tail- it was like 1/4 OF THE SKY!! at least 5 times the width of the full moon


37 posted on 07/18/2013 11:03:38 AM PDT by Mr. K (There are lies, damned lies, statistics, and democrat talking points.)
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To: Sopater

Hale-Bopp provided a lifetime event for me in Eastern Colorado. It was fantastic! Few Comets live up to their hype; HB outdid the press.


60 posted on 07/18/2013 12:18:24 PM PDT by Loud Mime (Liberal: A person who charges their grandchildren for today's party)
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To: Sopater
more impressive that Hale-Bopp.

Bill Haley and the Hale Bopps, I remember them......

63 posted on 07/18/2013 12:23:09 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (This space for rent)
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