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Re: There's one out there to look at now . . .

Hello, and sorry you think me so stupid. Here is the biggest problem I have with accepted comet theory. What causes the dust trail to fall behind the comet? Seems to me that the comet has to be acted upon to make it accelerate and the dust to not accelerate, or the dust has to decelerate through some force not decelerating the comet. Otherwise the dust would be going in all directions not just behind the comet.

Likewise why does the ion trail blow in the solar wind when man made ion trails do not blow in the wind?

These are the basic problems that lead me to re-examine comet theory which I have known for nearly as long as I have been alive.

The other problem has always been why there is no dark side to the coma of the comet. It is dense enough to keep us from seeing the nucleus and from seeing through it.

Thanks for your patience.

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