Talk:85D/Boethin

Wild theory
I've come across a weird theory telling that the Boethin comet is the same object as the WD5 asteroid. However, the only source I found is this article. So it is certainly a hoax, be warned. Kromsson (talk) 14:46, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Comet Boethin never broke up!
Citation from http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/NASA_Sends_Spacecraft_On_Mission_To_Comet_Hartley_2_999.html


 * "Scientists theorize comet Boethin may have broken up into pieces too small for detection."

I am experienced amateur astronomer strongly interested in comets. Comet 85P was observed on 1975 and 1986 apparitions and was not observed in 1997 and (yet) 2008 apparitions. I know that comet Boethin never broke up! We could lose it because of non-gravitational forces [?] or non-stable brightness. There was no attempts to recover this comet on 1997 because it was almost exactly behind the Sun. On 2008 there was few (negative) attempts to recover it (down to 25 mag).

Therefore, I delete the citation. — Chesnok (talk) 08:40, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
 * That's interesting, but Yahoo groups are not a reliable source. Even if you had a reliable source that states this point of view, we should include both hypotheses, to satisfy encyclopedic breadth. --Dhartung | Talk 22:51, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
 * The New York Times is not a reliable source. At Yahoo groups, there is many competent astronomers but Henry Fountain is not an astronomer. — Chesnok (talk) 08:02, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

I have found the source of this statement. It is strange that I haven't heard about it until now. This unsuccesful attempt to observe 85P and estimation of possible 85P remnants was not widely known among amateur astronomers. — Chesnok (talk) 16:50, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

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