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Originally Posted by Jens
Well, I think they're saying that Tempel doesn't have a sufficiently elliptical orbit, so it's not a good candidate for testing their theory. A better candidate would be a comet that goes far out and then passes close to the sun, so there would be a greater electric differential, if such a differential exists.
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Something like the Halley comet, visited by five probes in 1986, of which Giotto was the closest?
(I actually remember Giotto from TV news...
Oh no! Now I feel old!)
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