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Newly spotted comet may outshine the full moon
New Scientist ^ | Tuesday, September 25, 2012 | Jeff Hecht

Posted on 09/26/2012 6:29:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

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To: SamAdams76

Comet West was excellent in early 1976.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_West


41 posted on 09/26/2012 7:43:40 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Kirkwood; PrkChps
Kohoutek was definitely visible to the naked eye in the US. I remember it quite well and somewhere I have photographs of it.

You're right. I was in college then, and our geology class went out to Death Valley and watched Kohoutek cross the sky, in daylight.

42 posted on 09/26/2012 7:44:39 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
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To: Strategerist
FRiend I never made a statement regarding this comet was going to hit Earth. That is God's decision. I have no idea. btw ... hypothetically speaking, if one was headed toward Earth would everyone be told?

As far as Newton is concerned, my preference is Einstein.

Am not looking for a fight FRiend, just playing late on the puter. If you are looking for a fight, please go at it. I'll just watch. LOL

43 posted on 09/26/2012 7:46:02 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: Tuanedge

That was Chernobyl- check a russian-english dictionary...


44 posted on 09/26/2012 7:52:29 PM PDT by One Name
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To: Don@VB
Quite a letdown.

Agreement, regarding Halley's Comet. That one was taught for years, in school, that it (the comet) would be spectacular. What a disappointment. Was told over and over it will be visible with the naked eye. Then it was not. Disappointment out the wazzooo!

45 posted on 09/26/2012 7:53:40 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Don’t tease me. I still have not recovered from the disappointment of Kohoutek.


46 posted on 09/26/2012 7:55:47 PM PDT by AndrewB (FUBO)
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To: mylife
That's Hale-Bopp, Halley's is a different comet.

Lucky to see Halley's on a cold night in East Texas and Hale-Bopp from about 35,000 feet over the Aleutians.

47 posted on 09/26/2012 7:56:37 PM PDT by X-spurt (It is truly time for ON YOUR FEET or on your knees)
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To: mylife

Hale-Bopp; followed undetected in the tail was a spaceship coming for the Heaven’s Gate faithful..


48 posted on 09/26/2012 7:57:31 PM PDT by One Name
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To: SunkenCiv

49 posted on 09/26/2012 8:01:48 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: SunkenCiv; a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows
I thought they wuz dead!


50 posted on 09/26/2012 8:04:16 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong!)
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To: mylife
"I saw Halley Bop in zero light pollution in the desert at Ft Irwin."

OPFOR bad guy?

51 posted on 09/26/2012 8:04:46 PM PDT by Godebert (No Person Except a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN!)
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To: Revolting cat!
Dang, the teacher was correct. They are visible. Thanks cat, I was wrong. Did they land about 1986? Ah, I can't do that, even for the teachers in chicago. Teacher, leave them kids alone! All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
52 posted on 09/26/2012 8:10:49 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: no-to-illegals
Guess it depended on where you were. Halley's was distinctly visible, although small, naked eye. Would have been a killer to see it when we passed though the tail in 1830’s.
53 posted on 09/26/2012 8:11:11 PM PDT by X-spurt (It is truly time for ON YOUR FEET or on your knees)
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To: SunkenCiv
I remember the run up to Kohoutek, its was going to be the Comet of the century, outshine Haley in 1910...but it was just a chunk of mud.

I like comets but seeing is believing.

54 posted on 09/26/2012 8:12:23 PM PDT by montanajoe (Blame Flame Shame or Beg I won't vote for R/R)
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To: SunkenCiv
my apology SunkenCiv. Have gone and went off topic. my apology.
55 posted on 09/26/2012 8:13:19 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: X-spurt
I tried several nights to see Halley's. Went to the darkest area could find, and saw nothing. Was disappointed to no end. Still not over it, though Hale Bop was nice. Had my youngest with me on viewing it over the course of six or more nights. The conversations were wonderful, and the child became a Conservative. Come to think of it, all of my children became Conservatives. I am blessed.
56 posted on 09/26/2012 8:17:56 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I am quite disappointed that astronomers are STILL pushing the completely erroneous idea that comets have “ice” that melts and evaporates to form the tail... After all the fly-bys, contacts and even destructive impact testing we have done on comets and found NO ICE! None, nada. Nil!

Comets flare in relation to the electrical activity of the sun and the solar wind. Cometary tails and comas are plasma phenomena and are electrical in nature. They exhibit all of the characteristics of plasmas and can even be demonstrated in the laboratory, simulated in computer modeling using plasma math, and photographs of comets show they are indistinguishable from any normal asteroid, except in orbital dynamics.

They are NOT dirty snowballs. They are charged bodies of rock, emitting electrons as they enter a differently charged area of the solar system, electrically machining the surface and carrying charged ions away. The solar wind repels these like charged ions away from the sun, creating the tail.

The universe is driven by electromagnetism, a force that is 39 orders of magnitude more powerful than gravity.


57 posted on 09/26/2012 8:19:19 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker
The universe is driven by electromagnetism

Am wondering if that is the key to warp drive, as in attraction and repulsion?

58 posted on 09/26/2012 8:24:39 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Is a *spotted comet* more rare than a spotted owl? Should it be protected?

I'd like to apply for a government grant to study this. :_)


59 posted on 09/26/2012 8:27:20 PM PDT by Daffynition (Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. ~ HLM)
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To: cripplecreek

I don’t have any use for a comet I can’t aim.


60 posted on 09/26/2012 8:34:58 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (I will fear no muslim))
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