Bruce, Your links keep getting snipped out of the digest emails. Not sure why. Tim Collinson wrote: > And this isn't "interesting" enough for them to get the radio > telescope time, like, yesterday?! It may have just been dumb luck meeting the law of large numbers. As the Boyajian et al. paper concludes, a exocomet breakup event is a good simple explanation. http://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.03622v1.pdf Rob O'Connor