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From: jdb@qubix.UUCP (Jeff Bulf)
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Subject: Re: Where's the best place to view Haley's Comet?
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> and when??
> 	Linda M. McInnis  USENET:    genrad!teddy!lmm

["... you're not going to like it" - Deep Thought]

    The answer is ... Venus. Or at least from high orbit around Venus.
Halleys Comet will be at its most spectacular at it's closest approach
to the Sun. It will be on the opposite side of the Sun from Earth at that time.
(Foo!)

    Fortunately, Venus will be over where the comet is, and our humble Pioneer
Venus Orbiter spacecraft ("It's still ticking!") will observe it with Radar
Mapper, Cloud Photopolarimiter, Infrared Radiometer, and I forget what else.

    From what I understand, Earthbound observers are pretty much SOL on this
one. Perhaps Gene Miya or somebody still in touch with NASA can be more
enlightening.

	yr 'umble bearer of bad news,
-- 
	Dr Memory
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