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Re: The rest of my responses
Posted By: Dan Rudolph (c1047069-a.cdrrpd1.ia.home.com)
Date: 3/27/2000 at 2:37 p.m.
In Response To: Re: The rest of my responses (Forrest)
: Interestingly enough, it seems the normal rules of
: astrophysics don't hold. The comet sometimes comes
: from the east, sometimes from the west. Though I
: suppose comets don't rise & fall like the sun
: & moon do; they're like stars or planets, at
: relatively fixed positions in the sky. So the comet
: could appear in the east relative to the earth on one
: pass, and then appear to the west in the next, if its
: orbit was erratic in just the right way.
Actually, comets orbit the sun in eliptical orbits.
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