Holmes expands
Now I have three successive nights to compare. Eventually we should see the debris stretch roughly along the orbit as the stuff ejected forwards moves away along a higher/slower path and the stuff ejected backwards does the opposite. Shuttle water dumps do it, tidally disrupted globular clusters do it, unsuspecting dwarf galaxies do it - now here it is before our eyes. But not this week... (If it weren't getting late and me having to be up in six hours, I'd put some numbers to that. Later. Celestial mechanics are free to chime in.)
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