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["Jack Jones" <spicastar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ya know guys, it's not exactly an excerpt from the Astrophysical Journal.
It's a 30-second spot on a weather report for Petes sake. He was just
telling people there's a comet in the sky and go out and look at it and gave
a diagram where, cut him some slack. I didn't want to launch an attack on
the whole journalism profession.

Jack

> That's the reason I've not watched any local news for the last 4 or 5
years - It seems that it's just one piece of mis-information after another.
This is a good example. If they can't even get this story correct, think
about what else they can't get correct. Very sad, but true. <sigh>
>
> /Bob
>
>
> > Thanks for the heads-up, Rick.  I haven't watched local news in many
moons,
> > and I have to say that sitting through hard-hitting stories about people
> > watching the "Friends" finale in a bar and how to best deal with your
boss
> > set me up for what Sean had to say about my picture.
> >
> > He said that the photo was courtesy of Lowell Observatory, who provided
> > them the link to the photo (Brian?).  Then he pointed to Sirius, and
said
> > it was Venus.  Then he said something about NEAT being an amateur
astronomy
> > program.  Then he said the comet had to be watched for a year to become
an
> > official celestial body, and looked sheepishly off camera.  They ran a
> > graphic that showed the comet passing near Venus in coming days, which
it
> > misses by 40 degrees.  I guess they tried, at least.
> >
> > Tom


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