On 10/26/07, Ronn! Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday, a normally-faint comet named P17/Holmes, which never > gets closer to the Sun than more than twice the Earth's distance > underwent an outburst which resulted in it becoming nearly a million > times brighter than it had been a few hours before.
Am I correct in understanding that astronomers don't know why this outburst is happening? Are there any theories? -- Mauro Diotallevi "Hey, Harry, you haven't done anything useful for a while -- you be the god of jello now." -- Patricia Wrede, 8/16/2006 on rasfc _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
