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the only "but" to the comet theory would be that in that time comets were considered messengers of bad things to happen. Also, only the Madgi knew about the "star" when they met Herodes, none of his artrologers/astronomers knew anything about the phenomenom, a comet would have been very well known. According to the texts, also this "star" behaved in such a way that seems very much in accordance to the retrograde movement of external planets such as Jupiter or Saturn.
It is alwas going to be a mystery, specially because not even the month or year is known precisely to calculate astronomical events, there will be many possibilities.
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