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Strange Green Comet Passing by Earth Next Week
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| February 18, 2009
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Posted on 02/18/2009 9:12:03 AM PST by Ben Mugged
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To: Larry Lucido
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posted on
02/18/2009 10:08:00 AM PST
by
AdSimp
To: Ben Mugged
Weird if everybody went blind.
To: cripplecreek
Yep that’s what messed the machines up. The songs were by ac/dc.
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posted on
02/18/2009 10:22:48 AM PST
by
DWC
(what do kids know about)
To: Ben Mugged
Is the comet from the Green Dimension?
Ugh. Scientific ignorance.
A comets visible tail is not a streamer that trails behind it! Plain and simply a comets tail will always face away from the sun(like a shadow) regardless of which direction the comet is moving.
Animated gif explaining this concept
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posted on
02/18/2009 10:32:18 AM PST
by
ICU812
(Oldtime Freeper, back from a long hiatus)
To: wolf24
![](http://www.extrememortman.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/Jack%20Nicholson%20James%20Dale%20Mars%20Attacks.jpg)
"We still have 2 out of 3 branches of the government working for us, and that ain't bad!"
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posted on
02/18/2009 10:49:45 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
To: skully
Of course if they mean backwards as in the tail precedes the body of the comet, then never mind the previous paragraph...except the last sentence. Ahh, but the comet still isn't flying backwards, regardless of whether the tail is preceding or tailing. The tails position depends on the direction of travel away or toward the Sun, of course you know that.
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posted on
02/18/2009 11:00:47 AM PST
by
calex59
To: calex59
The tails position depends on the direction of travel away or toward the Sun, of course you know that. Actually the tail's position usually is determined by the position of the sun relative to the comet. The tail *usually* points directly away from the sun because it is pushed there by the solar wind.
That is what makes this comet "odd". The tail is not pointing where it should, indicating that there is some jetting of gasses or some other phenomenon happening.
On second thought...
Perhaps by "backwards" they don't refer to the tail at all but rather the counter-clockwise direction of the comets travel around the sun as opposed to our solar system's general clockwise orientation?
Either way its poorly written at minimum.
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posted on
02/18/2009 11:12:08 AM PST
by
ICU812
(Oldtime Freeper, back from a long hiatus)
To: Ben Mugged
Night of the Comet
Valley Girls meet Zombies at the mall. Excellent B movie.
![](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TkCvA-hmL._SS500_.jpg)
http://www.zombiesurvivalwiki.com/page/Night+of+the+Comet?t=anon
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posted on
02/18/2009 11:26:08 AM PST
by
Lee'sGhost
(Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
To: poindexters brother
I knew it was one or the other, gravity pulling it toward the sun or solar winds, I chose gravity!:) At any rate I know that comets down “fly backwards!”.
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posted on
02/18/2009 11:30:13 AM PST
by
calex59
To: Larry Lucido; AdSimp
>>>A classy green-eyed comet?<<<Still heartbroken....LOL
Ah, for old time's sake.
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posted on
02/18/2009 11:31:08 AM PST
by
Drew68
To: dfwgator
To: calex59
I agree. I was just trying to work in a jab at the stupid 53% that voted for 0 that I referenced in the previous paragraph.
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posted on
02/18/2009 11:56:41 AM PST
by
skully
(Are you better off then you were 4 weeks ago???)
To: Ben Mugged
Will it cleanse our solar system?
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posted on
02/18/2009 11:58:04 AM PST
by
GSWarrior
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To: GSWarrior
Only if it skips off of Chicago and comes to rest on the White House.
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posted on
02/18/2009 11:59:04 AM PST
by
IrishPennant
("We're surrounded...That simplifies our problem.")
To: lormand
Only if some idiot with a telescope like me first claims to have found a "strange object" following the comet. No "strange objects" in my images or videos of it:
To: poindexters brother
That is what makes this comet "odd". The tail is not pointing where it should, indicating that there is some jetting of gasses or some other phenomenon happening.
I'm not a scientist but my Husband says that the green color could be that the comet is an iceball of copper sulfide and/or argon gas - they both burn green in visible lightwaves. The cynogen (sp?) gas would burn colorless. Instead of shedding these gases into the tail (which is caused by friction) as a less compact iceball comet would do, the friction may be compacting an already dense comet. He says the phenomenon to watch for is if an already dense gas-ball of ice is compressed further, it may result in a partial or complete explosive fracturing. Now, I, am curious that the story comes from Washington, as opposed to NASA. best regards, blu
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posted on
02/19/2009 4:05:17 PM PST
by
blueplum
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