FreeLists / az-observing / [AZ-Observing] Re: News 12

["Jones, Jack (AZ75)" <jack.jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I originally suspected Jennifer Keller as the source, since I recently gave
her Sean's name as a potential speaker for SAC, but that would be on
"meteor"-ology, which he knows something about, and not comet-ology, on
which he is just a rank "amateur", and an enthusiastic one at that. As far
as astronomy in general, he's the most sympathetic/knowledgable news/weather
person in the Valley sorry to say. I'll always remember the hapless (Ch 5?)
news anchor reporting the volcanoes discovered on "Jupiter's Moon 10".

Jack

> 
> >>  He said that the photo was courtesy of Lowell 
> Observatory, who provided
> >>  them the link to the photo (Brian?).
> 
>      I sent the URL to the Lowell staff since there is 
> general interest,
> and we're bound to get phone calls, tourists visiting, etc.  I'm told 
> that this afternoon someone from Ch 12 called us and got our PR person
> Steele Wotkyns, asking if we knew anything about the comet.  
> Steele of course
> gave him the URL for Tom's pictures, and the rest is over the 
> airwaves.
> Seems like the TV station could have at least mentioned Tom, given the
> local connection, but since they evidently got just about 
> everything else
> wrong, perhaps this isn't surprising.
at part of the sky.
> \Brian
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