From: jscotti@lpl.arizona.edu (Jim Scotti)
Subject: Re: Comet in Temporary Orbit Around Jupiter?
Organization: Lunar & Planetary Laboratory, Tucson AZ.
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In article <1993Apr21.170817.15845@sq.sq.com> msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) writes:
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>> > > Also, peri[jove]s of Gehrels3 were:
>> > > 
>> > > April  1973     83 jupiter radii
>> > > August 1970     ~3 jupiter radii
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>> > Where 1 Jupiter radius = 71,000 km = 44,000 mi = 0.0005 AU. ...
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>> Sorry, _perijoves_...I'm not used to talking this language.
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>Thanks again.  One final question.  The name Gehrels wasn't known to
>me before this thread came up, but the May issue of Scientific American
>has an article about the "Inconstant Cosmos", with a photo of Neil
>Gehrels, project scientist for NASA's Compton Gamma Ray Observatory.
>Same person?

Neil Gehrels is Prof. Tom Gehrels son.  Tom Gehrels was the discoverer
of P/Gehrels 3 (as well as about 4 other comets - the latest of which
does not bear his name, but rather the name "Spacewatch" since he was
observing with that system when he found the latest comet).  

>-- 
>Mark Brader, SoftQuad Inc., Toronto	"Information! ... We want information!"
>utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com				-- The Prisoner

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Jim Scotti 
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Lunar & Planetary Laboratory
University of Arizona
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