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Old 15-11-2007, 02:49 PM
brucemstrs brucemstrs is offline
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Re: What will happen to Comet Holmes?

As far as I aware nothing unusual has happened to comet Holmes. apart from the sudden eruptions of gases which have increased by many times the comets magnitude.

Even this has happened before, though I don't believe anyone knows exactly why it should happen in this erretic way.

It's orbital period is about 7 years, and almost circular around the sun, so it is not so eccentric in it's movements like most comets are, and it has no points at which it's closeness to the sun is greatly changed.

It does inhabit that area where asteroids also exist, but it has done so successfully for an awful long time.
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