re comet in temporary orbit around jupiter phil g fraering writes mark brader writes thanks again one final question the name gehrels wasn t known to me before this thread came up but the may issue of scientific american has an article about the inconstant cosmos with a photo of neil gehrels project scientist for nasa s compton gamma ray observatory same person no i estimate a probability the gehrels referred to is thomas gehrels of the spacewatch project kitt peak observatory you may change that to certainty but to clarify spacewatch is a university of arizona project using a telescope of the steward observatory located on kitt peak it is not associated with kitt peak national observatory other than sharing a mountain
