Comet-Kaze Strikes The Sun

Discovery News ^ | Saturday, March 13, 2010 | Ray Villard

[SunkenCiv]

Ka-boom!

Because the sungrazers are so short-lived and many seem to follow similar orbits... the majority belong to a hypothesized "mother comet" that disintegrated perhaps as long as 2000 years ago.

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[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

The Kreutz Sungrazers are a family of sungrazing comets, characterized by orbits taking them extremely close to the Sun at perihelion.About 83% of the sungrazers observed with SOHO are members of the Kreutz group.

[KoRn]

I think being launched into to Sun would be an awesome way to go!

[freedumb2003]

The result will hit us on the solstice in... 2012!!!!

(just saw 2012 today for the first time — funniest movie I have seen in quite some time).

[freedumb2003]

>>I think being launched into to Sun would be an awesome way to go!<<

Have it done at night so you won’t get burnt.

[JoeProBono]

[KoRn]

"Have it done at night so you won’t get burnt."

That's a great idea! After dark, the damn thing is probably cold until it lights back up in the morning. I might make it to the surface!

[freedumb2003]

??After dark, the damn thing is probably cold until it lights back up in the morning. I might make it to the surface!<<

THAT’S the spirit! — 12 hours there and back!

[Cronos]

The result will hit us on the solstice in... 2012!!!!

Interesting ping

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks sonofstrangelove.

[SunkenCiv]

The limit to that approach is defined by the immutable speed of dark.

[Uri’el-2012]

f2003>The result will hit us on the solstice in... 2012!!!!

Interesting ping

Summer or winter ?

[freedumb2003]

>>Summer or winter ?<<

Based on the movie, I will say winter — that seems to be the one the ancients get their robes in a bunch about...

[Quix]

HMMMMMM

. . . a la the ice queen of Narnia?

LOL.

[freedumb2003]

>>The limit to that approach is defined by the immutable speed of dark.<<

Which is measured in the photosruind scale (you can only measure escape velocity).

[Sender]

Kaze = Wind

[jimpick]

Dude go during winter, and leave from Alaska and you could get 22 maybe 23 hours there and back. Won't need as much fuel and won't cause as much man made global warming.

Oh and bring me some Jimmy Dean sausage back please.

[coon2000]

Ali G asked Buzz Aldrin about going to the Sun in the winter.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xLN5-1QGRM

[freedumb2003]

That was FABULOUS — Buzz was great in Frasier and clearly has the deadpan delivery and response than anyone would want.

What a trooper!