I have found this particular string really 
interesting.  I certainly don't mind at all about the 
fact it isn't strictly geocaching related.

Unless you count the ways to figure out making it a 
virtual cache. =-)

xWaterLilyx
Team H2O
--- Original Message ---
From: trisha@brasher.com
To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
Subject: RE: [Az-Geocaching] A comment......:-)

>Jim, I just wanted to tell you that you absolutely 
fascinate me (I
>like astronomy) and enjoy this particular "off-topic" 
information! I
>sure hope you continue to educate and amaze me, and 
hopefully others,
>and that nobody minds that it isn't "geocaching" 
talk....Thanks so
>much!!!! :-))))
>Trisha "Lightning"
>Prescott
>
>
>Jim Scotti wrote:
>
>> 
>> On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Jim Stamm wrote:
>> 
>> > Yes, I heard Levy's program, but didn't realize 
that it was a
>> repeat.  No 
>> > wonder I wasn't able to find the comet's 
elements.  If I recall,
>the 
>> > orbit is more like an asteroid's, but at 
Jupiter's distance.  How
>> bright 
>> > does Comet Scotti get?
>> 
>> There are 2 comets Scotti out there, both short 
period comets (which
>> means
>> they orbit the sun in orbits that take less than 
200 years, actually
>> 11.5
>> years for one, just over 7 years for the other).  
Neither of them get
>> particularly close to the sun (4 AU for one, 2.5 AU 
for the other -
>an
>> AU is
>> the mean distance of Earth from the sun, 93 million 
miles or 150
>> million
>> kilometers).  Neither will get particularly bright 
either, probably
>at
>> best
>> between about 16th and 20th magnitude (the faintest 
you can see with
>> the
>> unaided eye is about 6th magnitude and each 
magnitude is about 2.5
>> times
>> fainter so it would take a decent telescope to 
see....).
>> 
>> Jim.
>> 
>> Jim Scotti                              
>> Lunar & Planetary Laboratory         
jscotti@pirl.lpl.arizona.edu 
>> University of Arizona                
>> Tucson, AZ 85721 USA                
>> <a
>href="http://mail.brasher.com/jump/http://www.lpl.ariz
ona.edu/~jscotti">http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti</
a>/    
>> 
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