Karandhara: ...comet. They just discovered it one or two years ago. They said that if it ever passed by the earth before, it was the time of the dinosaurs.
Prabhupāda: Dinosaur?
Karandhara: Yes. Over fifty thousand years ago.
Prabhupāda: (chuckles) He cannot say what happened yesterday, and he's speaking fifty thousand years. Is there a statement in any śāstra or his own statement?
Karandhara: No, that's by mathematical calculation of the trajectory and speed.
Prabhupāda: Oh, mathematics...
Karandhara: It's going at a certain speed in a certain orbit. So they calculate that it would complete that orbit once every fifty to two hundred thousand years.
Prabhupāda: That is there in astrology, astronomy. That is not discovery.
Karandhara: No, actually, one scientist just looked at a telescope and saw it coming. And that's what they call discovery. And of course, he got the comet named after him.
Prabhupāda: Who?
Karandhara: The scientist. His name was Kahotek. So he discovered it. So the comet is named after him.
Prabhupāda: And if it is mentioned elsewhere?
Karandhara: I'm sure he'll want to keep his claim.
Prabhupāda: Eh?
Karandhara: I'm sure he'll want to keep his claim.
Prabhupāda: No, if... In some astrological book, if it is mentioned there?
Karandhara: Scientists probably won't accept it. They think if they don't discover it, then it's not bona fide.
Prajāpati: Unless one of them discovers it in the book.
Karandhara: Ah. Yes.
Prabhupāda: Ah?
Prajāpati: If one of them discovers it in the śāstras, then, oh, they'll...
Karandhara: They say they've looked through all the old books and the old records and they haven't found any mention of it.
Prabhupāda: I think in the Indian astronomical calendar there must be mention.
Nara-nārāyaṇa: (break) ...effect of comet?
Prabhupāda: No, generally we know when there is comet, there is very bad effect.
Prajāpati: The comet doesn't really bring the bad effect. It simply is a symptom. Is that it?
Prabhupāda: Eh?
Prajāpati: The comet doesn't bring the bad effect, it is a symptom.
Prabhupāda: No, yes, bring, bring.
Prajāpati: It does bring it.
Prabhupāda: Yes.