Posted on 08/21/2013 12:33:23 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Just occurred to me... Those Sun vids are generally greatly sped up. So anything that looked simultaneous may not have been. Still, I’m amazed that a comet that was only 40, 50 or 60 meters across could cause big old Mr. Sun to react so violently when hit by such a little thing, especially since it was surely vaporized (or exploded, a la Tunguska?) before it got more than a tiny distance into the Sun’s upper atmospheric layers.
Yes, I remember reading about that. Exciting. Close call for Mars! And potentially not good for it next time the comet comes around. Don’t like these close calls. They always change the comet or asteroid’s orbit and then you have to think about what that might mean for us.
Well, I hope you people with your SUVs are happy now. Oh, yeah, and the smokers too. And fat people. And Bush.
There’s an Ison finding app for the iPhone/iPad:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/aison-hui-xingwo-jianyou/id666142827?mt=8
Concerning ISON's orbit around the Sun, it allows for the possibility of a violent breakup of the comet, and then the possibility some of the debris might enter a new path closer to earth.
It's travelling twice as fast as average comets and will streak pass earth's orbit on its way out at around 250,000 KMH. Will round the sun at about twice that! ISON will travel from the sun past earth's orbit in 10 days!
ISON has reappeared from behind the sun's halo at about -2 magnitude dimmer than predicted, as of last week.
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