bobn@bmcg.UUCP (Bob Nebert) (10/07/85)
In todays San Diego Union (Oct. 17) is a picture of Ryan and Shasta Halley. Big deal?. Their ancestor discovered the famous comet and now their great- grandfather 'plans to sign over the famed comet to the children---just as his father did to him in 1910.' What the hell does that mean?
lowry@fortune.UUCP (John Lowry) (10/15/85)
In article <1923@bmcg.UUCP> bobn@bmcg.UUCP (Bob Nebert) writes: >In todays San Diego Union (Oct. 17) is a picture of Ryan and Shasta Halley. >Big deal?. Their ancestor discovered the famous comet and now their great- >grandfather 'plans to sign over the famed comet to the children---just as >his father did to him in 1910.' > >What the hell does that mean? Nothing.
henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (10/20/85)
> ...Their ancestor discovered the famous comet...
No he didn't, he deduced (but did not live long enough to prove) that
several major comets were in fact periodic appearances of the same comet.
This might count as a discovery of the comet, but Comet Halley was seen
millenia before Halley was born.
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Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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