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To: Errant

ISON is supposed to approach the Sun within 750,000 miles or so. The nucleus of the comet is three miles across, compared to this little guy yesterday that was estimated to have been only a few tens of meters across. If Jupiter could rip Shoemaker-Levy apart, what will the Sun do to ISON when it approaches so closely? As it stands now, ISON isn’t supposed to approach the Earth any closer than 40 million miles, but that’s assuming it leaves the inner solar system in one piece. The odds of any piece of it hitting us is probably slim, but it’s got my attention!


17 posted on 08/21/2013 1:51:35 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker
but that’s assuming it leaves the inner solar system in one piece.

Exactly. Did you see what a CME that "miniscule" comet caused - if indeed it did, and I've seen others cause similar. Makes you wonder if the government getting stupid with prepping and unconcerned printing, has sumpin' to do with it...

18 posted on 08/21/2013 1:56:28 PM PDT by Errant
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To: LibWhacker

There is another comet out there coming so close to Mars soon, that you can’t separated if from the planet using NASA small body simulator.


19 posted on 08/21/2013 1:59:24 PM PDT by Errant
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To: LibWhacker; BwanaNdege
See for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=comet+hits+sun&oq=comet+hits+sun&gs_l=youtube.3..0l2.1920.8054.0.8336.26.15.6.5.6.0.163.1492.10j5.15.0...0.0...1ac.1.11.youtube.xwLMmLXd1hI.

Happens too often to be coincidence!

20 posted on 08/21/2013 2:08:58 PM PDT by Errant
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To: LibWhacker

There’s an Ison finding app for the iPhone/iPad:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/aison-hui-xingwo-jianyou/id666142827?mt=8


25 posted on 08/21/2013 2:57:54 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (IRS = Internal Revenge Service)
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