Re: Hale-Bopp THEN and NOW

Article: <5enoil$57p@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>
From: saquo@ix.netcom.com(Nancy )
Subject: Re: Hale-Bopp THEN and NOW
Date: 22 Feb 1997 21:31:01 GMT

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In article <5elddl$11fc@news.ccit.arizona.edu> Jim Scotti writes:
>> (Begin ZetaTalk)
>> Your next point, that you "integrated trajectories" of objects
>> similar to Hale-Bopp. Pardon? What objects are you aware
>> of that have 4,200 year cycles? What objects have similar
>> orbits that take them out of the Solar System for thousands
>> of years?
>
> I'm aware of nothing on HB-like orbits except for HB. ...
> Since we don't know the orbit of HB well enough to project
> its orbit (i.e. trajectory) in time to know EXACTLY what it
> has done in the past, I generated a set of orbits similar to
> the best determined orbit of HB ... I simply used a batch of
> similar orbits in order to see what types of behavior HB
> might have experienced.
>
> Since I want them to represent the possible kinds of orbits HB
> has experienced, they all start out with orbits that are almost
> exactly like HBs best determined orbit and they all reach
> perihelion close to 4,200 years ago in my simulated solar system.
> jscotti@LPL.Arizona.EDU (Jim Scotti)
>
>> What you're confessing here, Jim, is that you cooked this
>> all up! Made it up! Pure speculation, buried in tons of
>> complicated math that would snow the layman! Thanks for
>> your honesty, as best you could be honest in the situation.
>> (End ZetaTalk[TM])

(Begin ZetaTalk[TM])
You're admitting that you had NO actual orbit to base your statement on, so lets concentrate on what you describe as "a set of orbits similar to the best determined orbit of HB". What ACTUAL orbits are similar? What ACTUAL orbits did you use? And while your listing those actual orbits, if in fact they exist, please tell us when that orbiting object was OBSERVED to be returning last to the Solar System? What we anticipate is that you are either

1. not using actual orbits or that you are
2. inserting orbits of what you assume to be repeating comets, having no documentation on their last visit, and
3. inserting the speculative period of these speculatively returning comets to cobble up the speculative return date of your fraud Hale-Bopp!

Is this not true?
(End ZetaTalk[TM])