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From: REM%MIT-MC@sri-unix.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Halley's Comet Will Be Brighter This Time
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Date: Thu, 20-Oct-83 07:16:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 20 07:16:00 1983
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From:  Robert Elton Maas <REM @ MIT-MC>

I could quibble with you on one of your points. Halley's comet isn't
streaking, it's just drifting, most of the time. Only when it gets
near the Sun and is traveling very rapidly could it be referred to as
"streaking". The rest of the time it's just running or crawling or
sitting [sorry, couldn't resist private TENEX joke]. Thus the AP may
be sort of correct in saying the comet streaks through the solar
system every so often, although I agree it would have been more
correct if it had said it streaks through the INNER solar system every
so often.