Jonathan Silverlight wrote:
In message , Phil Wheeler
writes

wa2ise wrote:

Take a look at my page
http://www.geocities.com/wa2ise/space/spcards.htm and
http://www.geocities.com/wa2ise/space/sp1-88.html for some
exceptionally cheesey space art. Back in the late 50's the Topps
trading card company put out a set of "Space Cards". Lots of cheese.



Thanks! Fun to see. I particularly like the one where they are
intercepting a comet .. from behind!


But how else would you do it? Head-on is OK for a flyby but otherwise
you'll end up like a bug on a windscreen. Anyway, going out from the Sun
the tail leads the head.

Good point

And the lunar mists aren't as far-fetched as you might think. Hal
Clement published his story "Dust Rag" in 1956, and the idea has
recently been revived. That could be electrostatically levitated dust.

Not my original comment, but still sounds far-fetched to me.

Phil