Like I said, it's the killer comet. jb On Oct 25, 2007, at 3:03 PM, Kurt Fisher wrote:

Running the comet's apparent size of 2 or 3 arcminutes at a distance of 2.44 astronomical units through the half-angle formula, I get a cloud diameter between 70,000 and 110,000 kilometers. - Kurt

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