Trevor Collins

If you don't mind looking up Comet 266P and what is its period?

Like, how often does that thing fly back around?

Because if my notes are correct, it might be 40 years.

It's not too bad.

That's in a lifetime.

Or it could be 20 or it could be 10, right?

But it's 40 years between them listening to it and 1977.

So most astronomers, I will say, as Christian looks that up, they're largely skeptical of this theory.

Again, to your point, the comet will come back around eventually, hopefully be in a similar spot in the night sky near Sagittarius, and hopefully something more sensitive can listen to it.

And then we can truly say, okay, it doesn't have the signal strength or it does.

Okay, so Christensen's been back since 2017, I think.

I don't know.

Now you're asking a good question.

Christian, I wish I knew that when we were researching, because that's something I would love to have looked at.

But ultimately, right, again, a lot of astronomers do doubt this theory.

There is a way to test it, and it is to listen to that comet when it comes back around.

That means that that comet has been around about six times since 1977.

So the math works out.

But before we move on, I do want to say some other wrinkles.

Some have argued that the two comets said to be in the path of Big Year at the time, in 1977, were actually not in the survey area.