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- From: pg@sanitas.stortek.com (Paul Gilmartin)
- Newsgroups: sci.astro
- Subject: Is P/Swift-Tuttle a Record Breaker?
- Summary: What long period comets have been observed on multiple apparitions?
- Keywords: comet period record apparition
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.162358.25585@stortek.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 16:23:58 GMT
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- What comets having longer period than P/Swift-Tuttle have been observed
- on multiple apparitions? The decade uncertainty in the prediction of S-T's
- current apparition and the difficulty of identifying its 1737 apparition
- suggest that there might be very few.
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