Trevor Collins

You've heard of Halley's Comet.

While 266P, Christensen once again passed through the sky region around Sagittarius.

I don't remember what year that would have been, but this study was in 2017.

And they determined that a total of four different comets matched the WOW signal.

Yeah, we're getting somewhere here.

When confronted with the fact that the original signal was way stronger than this team was observing on these comets, they explained that the radio telescope that they were using was much smaller than Big Ear.

So they're saying, okay, while Big Ear might not have been the most sensitive, ours is even smaller, hence why our signals are smaller.

This has been a frequent issue with strange signals captured since 1977.

None of them have been able to record the strength that Big Ear captured.

And so some think that that disproves the comet theory, that a comet couldn't naturally emit a signal this strong.

But they're saying, no, it's because our measuring surfaces, in which case I say, wait for the comet to come back around and measure it with something bigger and see.

Yeah.

Yeah, I think it... I don't know what... Okay, Christian, help me out.

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.