RE: Shuttle Question

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Patrick Wiggins wrote:

>There was a report on the radio quite a while back that astronaut Mary
>Cleve (sp?) performed a water dump over Houston which was very visible
>from the ground.  So visible, in fact, that the local media referred to
>it as Comet Cleve.  :-)

Having seen a waste water dump from Challenger in
August 1985, I can confirm that it does indeed
look like a comet - a rather surreal one, with a
coma as bright as Jupiter, and a greenish blue
tail. The tail even led the "coma", as it rose
in the west, as a real comet's would, had it been
at that position relative the sun. It was a very
beautiful and impressive sight.

Ted Molczan

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