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