Message-Id: <v01540b0baf58ebedb15a@[192.174.2.173]>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 17:53:03 -0800
To: pinhole@exploratorium.edu
From: pauld@exploratorium.edu (Paul Doherty)
Subject: Re: HELP!!!
>Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 20:40:46 -0500 (EST)
>From: Sthammack@aol.com
>To: pauld@exploratorium.edu
>Subject: Re: HELP!!!
>
>Paul,
>
>My students and I are baffled by the reports on Hale-Bopp. Newsweek reports
>that it will return in 2,400 years and its last visit was in 2,213 B.C. What
>is it's period: 2,400 yrs or 4,200 years? If the period truly is different
>then why?? Curious minds want to know!
>Please respond ASAP!
>
>Thanks,
>Steve Hammack
>