See:
Flandry's scout boat is called Giacobini-Zinner because the boat is Comet class and Giacobini-Zinner is a comet.
Flandry nicknames his boat "Jake" for obvious reasons. I never wondered about that boat's name before but the recent encounter with the Comet class boats, Encke and Ikeya-Seki, gave me reason to check. Every background detail in the Technic History is fully consistent.
"Poul Anderson immerses you in the future... Anderson puts you into a whole new world."
-Larry Niven quoted on the back of Young Flandry.
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Kaor, Paul!
I wondered just now if, in later years, Flandry kept a model of his Comet class scout boat in his Archopolis apartment. It would be the kind of thing old Navy officers would often do.
Absolutely, what Niven said!
Ad astra! Sean
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