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Re: The rest of my responses
Posted By: Forrest (cache1.avtel.net)
Date: 3/29/2000 at 12:38 a.m.
In Response To: Re: The rest of my responses (Dan Rudolph)
: Actually, comets orbit the sun in eliptical orbits.
Right, but like planets (which also orbit the sun), they appear to us on any given night as stationary, not moving across the sky. And since comets are only really visible for a few months at most, they don't have time to move from the eastern sky to the western sky (or vice versa), as planets do, so they just appear to slightly rise or slightly fall during their brief stay, to us appearing more-or-less fixed.
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