Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 17:07:08 -0600 (CST) From: Eduardo Xavier Amador <Eduardo.Xavier@fis.cinvestav.mx> Subject: novae statistics Hi!... i'm Xavier Amador, a mexican physicist trying to seek info about novae statistics... i've surfed internet lots of hours and can't find the info i need... could you help me??? i want to know if there exist any type of statistics count on novae on the milky way and on any other galaxies... the latest info i have is that there is 25 novae per year in our galaxy... but i cant trust this info because i believe that a statistic of cataclismic variables doesnt exist just because that would means that there exist a periodic behaviour of this kind of stars in any galaxy... 25 novae per year seems ridiculous to me!... may be a MEAN of this stars may exist, but that doesnt means that this MEAN keeps equal year to year... in fact this have to vary because there's no evidence that exist a periodic behavior of this kind of stars in our galaxy or in any other galaxy!!! could you confirm this or am i wrong? THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION!!! bye! Xavier Amador