Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site islenet.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!noscvax!uhpgvax!islenet!bob From: bob@islenet.UUCP (Robert P. Cunningham) Newsgroups: net.space,net.astro Subject: Re: fake comet Message-ID: <859@islenet.UUCP> Date: Sat, 22-Dec-84 09:59:52 EST Article-I.D.: islenet.859 Posted: Sat Dec 22 09:59:52 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 24-Dec-84 03:09:48 EST References: <1510@drutx.UUCP> <529@cbosgd.UUCP> Organization: Hawaii Institute of Geophysics Lines: 18 The latest word is that the West German satellite will release that barium cloud at 0218 Hawaii Standard Time on Tuesday morning. The glowing cloud should be about 1/6th the apparent diameter of a full moon, and in the first minute or two will be right enough for colors to be detectable. It should appear reddish-yellow at first, but will turn deep blue and then gray before fading from view. The show should last about 5-10 minutes for people observing with the naked eye, about 20 minutes for those with binoculars. [Hawaii should be an excellent place from which to view it ... but unless you're already here or on the way, don't make any new plans. Most of the airlines and essentially all the hotels are booked solid thru 6 Jan due to an unusually-large influx of tourists this season.] -- Bob Cunningham ..{dual,ihnp4,vortex}!islenet!bob Honolulu, Hawaii