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From: woolsey@umn-cs.UUCP (Jeff Woolsey)
Newsgroups: net.astro
Subject: Looking for Edmund's Comet
Message-ID: <867@umn-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 26-Jan-86 21:25:02 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 26 21:25:02 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 28-Jan-86 06:25:51 EST
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Reply-To: woolsey@umn-cs.UUCP (Jeff Woolsey)
Organization: Computer Science Dept., U of Minn, Mpls, MN
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Summary: 

(It's much more difficult to mispronounce "Edmund" than "Halley".)

As a neophyte amateur sky observer, I've been trying to see this comet thingie 
off and on since October.  I'm convinced that it is a ruse to get us out in 
the freezing cold to see other, more spectacular things in the sky.  The first 
night I went out to look for the comet I was unable to spot it, but did see 
the Perseid meteor shower.  I guess I haven't gone far enough out of the city 
to look.  I'm also amazed at how many aircraft there are in the night sky.
The most recent time I went out (this evening) I was again frustrated seeking 
the comet, but I did see a bright green meteor with an orange tail streaking 
from north to south about 40 degrees above the horizon at 0015 UTC.  It was 
the brightest thing in the sky short of the rising full moon and lasted about 
3 seconds in the Minneapolis area.  I'm wondering if anyone else saw this 
object Sunday evening?
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				Jeff Woolsey
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