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HOT COMET: Comet NEAT
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| 17 Feb 2003
| spaceweather.com
Posted on 02/17/2003 5:46:11 PM PST by Lokibob
HOT COMET: Comet NEAT (C/2002 V1), which is perilously close to the Sun, has entered the field of view of SOHO coronagraphs. The comet has grown spectacularly bright in recent days and its tail is many times bigger than the Sun itself. (continued below)
Above: A SOHO coronagraph image of Comet NEAT and the Sun on Feb. 17, 2003. The horizontal line near the head of the comet is a digital imaging artifact caused by saturation of camera pixels. [more]
On Feb. 18th, the date of closest approach or "perihelion," Comet NEAT will lie just 0.1 AU from the Sun--well inside the orbit of Mercury. (The radius of Mercury's orbit is 0.4 AU.) Will the comet continue to brighten? Break apart? Or fizzle out? Stay tuned and find out.
TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: comet; nest; spaceweather; sun
I liked the picture.
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posted on
02/17/2003 5:46:11 PM PST
by
Lokibob
To: Lokibob
Will this be visible to the naked eye ?
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posted on
02/17/2003 5:53:02 PM PST
by
Damagro
To: Lokibob
Yeah, Neat Comet.Hope it does not burn up coming so close to the Sun.
To: Damagro
Your eye might get cold!
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posted on
02/17/2003 5:55:28 PM PST
by
cmsgop
( Arby's says no more Horsey Sauce for Scott Ritter !!!!)
To: Damagro
It says "stay tuned". They don't know what will happen to it when it passes the sun. Possibilities are: It will be destroyed, it will break into pieces, it will have a double tail, nothing will happen to it.
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posted on
02/17/2003 6:03:08 PM PST
by
Lokibob
To: Lokibob
Pretty Cool!!
To: Lokibob
OMG a pending war and a comet too! The Nostradamus people are wetting their pants even as we speak. I better listen to George Noory tonight so I know what to do ;)
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posted on
02/17/2003 6:56:19 PM PST
by
foolscap
To: foolscap
Tuesday night Noory has a Nostradamus expert on.
Tomorrow night is the night.
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posted on
02/17/2003 6:59:58 PM PST
by
BlackJack
To: Lokibob; RightWhale
We're all gonna die!
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posted on
02/17/2003 7:02:32 PM PST
by
blam
To: Joe Hadenuf
HOT COMET: Comet NEAT Astronomical ping
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posted on
02/17/2003 7:05:45 PM PST
by
Riley
To: blam
We're all gonna die! Yeah. Sooner or later everybody will probably die of something or other.
--Sturgeon General
We won't see this comet naked eye if it is SOHO material. Lost in the glare of the sun.
To: foolscap
Why did you do this to me?
I had to go see what Nostradamus said:
What Nostradamus forsaw for the years following 2000 is not reassuring. A giant comet is hurtling toward Earth and a great war will threaten the world as we know it. August 2004 - IMPACT!
Very near Auch, Lectoure, and Mirande great fire will fall from the sky for three nights. A most stupendous and astonishing event will occur. Very soon afterwards the earth will tremble. QI:46
Here Nostradamus advises of the approach of a great comet. It will pass low over southern France, raining debris on the Earth below for three nights. But the nucleus of the comet is headed for the Aegean area after flashing directly over Rome. |
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Space Ship Samarobryn
Very great famine through pestiferous wave, through
long rain the length of the arctic pole. Samarobryn
one hundred leagues from the hemisphere, they will
live without law, exempt from politics. Q VI:5
The dust cloud from the explosion of Nostradamus' comet will have grievous effects throughout the Northern Hemisphere ("the length of the arctic pole"). The burst spews vast areas with carbon dust, precipitating heavy carbon-laden rains and attendant crop failures. The second half of the verse is fascinating since it seems to describe a space tug -- the only thing that would be located a hundred leagues (about 300 miles) from the hemisphere. "Samarobryn" is some sort of coded designation, maybe an acronym. This space vehicle -- no doubt Russo-American -- is in orbit when the comet hits. The occupants, of course, would be insulated from earthly politics.
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posted on
02/17/2003 7:13:21 PM PST
by
Lokibob
To: RightWhale
"...The Iceman Comet..."
Sorry..."I'm a poet...and don't know it"...that's what my Dad once told me. :-D
Mustang sends w/Best FReegards...from under the desk.
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posted on
02/17/2003 7:15:01 PM PST
by
Mustang
To: Lokibob
2004?! We have to wait THAT long? Cripes, ping me around July 2004 please.
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posted on
02/17/2003 7:17:51 PM PST
by
Hatteras
(The Thundering Herd Of Turtles ROCK!)
To: Mustang
Your feet show it
(They're Longfellows)...
To: Lokibob
All that has already happened before.
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posted on
02/17/2003 7:23:25 PM PST
by
blam
To: foolscap
I better listen to George Noory tonight... I sure he'll consult his ouji board and let you know. Better yet, Mikey Siegal will read his cat's paws and tell you too.
To: Riley
Thanks for the ping Riley. Got Verizon site back up, and now I need to finish the observatory so I can take some more images. Slow going with design problems and design decisions to be made. I don't think it will be finished until early summer. Thanks.... I sincerely appreciate all your help.
To: Lokibob
OH NO-WE'RE ALL ABOUT TO DIE!!!/sarcasm
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posted on
02/17/2003 7:37:07 PM PST
by
foolscap
To: Calvin Locke
Better yet, listen here live:
MCcanney
It's not a friggin' snowball.
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