In a message dated 11/21/2002 1:06:07 AM Mountain Standard Time, NJ-MEMORIES-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > WHO REMEMBERS THE HALE-BOOP A FW YEAR AGO. I remember Hale-Bopp; that was almost six years ago now. That came by at just about the time that we were moving from California to Colorado. I saw it several times before we moved; and when we got into our rented house in Colorado, we had an orchestra seat on cloudless evenings. Hale-Bopp was setting over the Rampart Range of the Rockies, and I set up my tripod and took several pictures of it. Our current house is much nicer, but it doesn't have that second-story deck facing the mountains. Kahoutek was the comet that fizzled back in 1974. Our daughter was in second grade, and the teachers got the class together for an evening of comet watching. What they saw was . . . absolutely nothing. There was another comet, though, the year before Hale-Bopp came through. That one had a long Japanese name that I'm not sure I can spell right -- Hayakutake, or something like that. That one never got close enough for a distinct tail to be seen; all you could see was something that looked like a cotton ball in the sky, and you had to know exactly where to look in order to see it. We watched it a couple of times in California, and I think I recall having some pictures of it that weren't all that great. I'll have to look in my photos for 1996. The latest pass-by of Halley's Comet was a fizzle, like Kahoutek. In fact, it was so anticlimactic that I don't even remember when it was. I think it was sometime in the 1980s. Doris in Colorado (Up2Nutrix@aol.com) "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot, missionary and martyr