[meteorite-list] The Skipper's Dad Co-Discovers a Comet!

[lebofsky at lpl.arizona.edu]

What is truely amazing that Alan Hale co-discovered Hale-Bopp in 1995
(fact), while Alan Hale, Sr. died in 1950 and Alan Hale, Jr. died in 1990.

Wow! I do not think that they were related.

Larry

PS yes, I do think that the Thomas Bopp who left the list was the real
Bopp of Hale-Bopp. :(


> On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 16:07:28 -0400, you wrote:

>

>>While we're on the off topic of old movies, did anyone realize that Alan

>>Hale,  the Skipper's  (Alan Hale Jr.), dad, was the co-discoverer of the

>>most widely observed comet of the 20th Century?

>>

>>Phil (Think IRONY, people!) Whitmer

>

> And (possibly) the OTHER discoverer of that comet gave up on this list

> just a

> couple of days ago!

>

> http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/2009-August/055920.html

>

> (Unless it was someone else named "Thomas Bopp".)

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