[blam]

Catastrophism ping?

[tomnbeverly]

Its all Bush's fault....

[Dreagon]

OH NOES!!! THE EARTH SHALL PASS THROUGH IT'S TAIL AND WE SHALL ALL BE BLINDED AND OVERRUN WITH TRIFIDS!!!

[null and void]

"How can a body as weak as meringue come together on a kilometer scale, then fall apart?"

*shrug* We have politicians like that...

[Strategerist]

I haven't looked, but I presume the usual assortment of Apolcalpytikook and Junk "science" sites are proclaiming that the comet chunks are going to hit earth on some specified date, but this knowledge is being "covered up" by NASA, etc?

If they aren't I'm pretty disappointed in them......

[thoughtomator]

Just another pass of the comet Gop...

[BenLurkin]

And more: "Chasing Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann"

http://www.skyhound.com/sh/73P.html

"May 4: Component B continues to evolve quickly. There are reports that it has faded and become more diffuse. Bob King, observing with a 10-inch, reports "Using 357x I resolved a compact cloud or condensation immediately following the nucleus of B that made the nuclear region look like a very close, fuzzy double star."

May 3: there are as yet unconfirmed reports that B is in outburst (which means it may have brightened significantly) as well as an abrupt change in morphology of the nucleus.

May 2: images are once again showing a double nucleus in component B

May 1: C is naked eye, B is obvious in binoculars, G is difficult, R is in outburst and now visible in an 8-inch telescope. See the Current Appearance section below for more info.

April 30: Component C is a confirmed naked-eye object. "

[UnklGene]

[RandallFlagg]

The comet has already fragmented into at least 59 pieces and may continue to break up as it reaches its position closest to the sun on June 6.


"I know this number well..."

^{"When the Jews return to Zion and a comet fills the sky
And the holy Roman Empire rises
and you and I
Must die..."}

[chemicalman]

Big snowball breaking up. Blame global warming.

[CurlyBill]

[mhx]

Fragment 3-BD looks like it's coming pretty close (within 10k miles):

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/neo_ca?type=NEO;hmax=all;tlim=recent_future;dmax=0.1AU;max_rows=200;action=Display%20Table;show=1&sort=dist_min&sdir=ASC

0.04 lunar distance

[SunkenCiv]

Catastrophism ping?

Good idea, Blam. This is the latest in a series of articles on this comet, which is now several comets.

[SunkenCiv]

Just adding this to the GGG catalog, not sending a general distribution.

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[djf]

TEOTWAWKI bump.

The remains of the comet will cross the elliptic plane about May 24th. The Earth will reach that region about May 28.

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