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  Re: Near Earth comet 2nd try [~17KB Jpg]  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 14 Aug 2000 10:46:56
Message: <39980680.C82C85D4@schunter.etc.tu-bs.de>
Bob Hughes wrote:
> 
> Here's a changed version.  Added the ion tail and smoothed out the dust
> tail, even made the coma smaller.  It can't be perfect I don't think, only
> better and better (or worse, depending).

better i think, just the tail should somehow thin out in the distance.  

> Want to credit Constantine Thomas, Kari Kivisalo, and James Hastings-Trew.
> I just now got the Earthpng.zip file at Constantine's site which I
> previously posted a reply to Christoph Hormann about.  I believe I had been
> using the maps from David Seal's site before: http://maps.jpl.nasa.gov/
> 

Thanks for the info, i got some similar maps lying around somewhere here but i
never used them in fact and i don't know where i got them from :-) 

Christoph 

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Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
Homepage: http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/


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