Posted on 09/03/2011 3:32:27 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: Comet Garradd continues to brighten as it drifts across the northern sky. Last week the comet, visible with binoculars and discernable by its green coma, passed nearly in front of globular cluster M71. M71 was once thought to be an open cluster, but is now known to be an older globular cluster containing over 10,000 stars. The photogenic duo was captured with a standard digital camera in a 10-minute, wide-angle exposure toward the northern constellation of the Arrow (Sagitta). The stars Sham (Alpha Sagittae), Beta Sagittae, Gamma Sagittae, and the double star Delta Sagitta are all visible in a diagonal band running down from the upper left. Comet C/2009 P1 (Garradd), will remain visible in northern skies for months and will reach its closest approach to the Sun in December.
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[Credit: Richard Tresch Fienberg (AAS)]
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Let's all get ready for the coming alien invasion. </scare mongering>
You’d have a valid point if Comet Elenin weren’t about to destroy the Earth by causing earthquakes and Obamacare.
What about the rogue brown dwarf star that is heading our way and will cause the earth to flip over sideways, pointing the South Pole directly at the sun and causing the Antarctic ice to melt and flood the earth in Biblical proportions?
Of course, we’ll have to survive all that stuff so that the aliens can kill us after they land the comet on the Mall in Washington.
Cue the Slim Whitman.
What would cause a green outgassing?
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