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"Suicide" Comet Storm Hits Sun—Bigger Sun-Kisser Coming?
National Geographic News ^
| January 17, 2011
| Andrew Fazekas
Posted on 01/20/2011 5:39:20 AM PST by Red Badger
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The sun-kissing comet Ikeya-Seki, as it appeared in the dawn sky in 1965.
Photograph by Victor R. Boswell, Jr., National Geographic
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To: Red Badger
Bigger Sun-Kisser Coming? sometime around 12/21/2012??
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posted on
01/20/2011 5:43:28 AM PST
by
Vaquero
(BHO....'The Pretenda from Kenya')
To: Vaquero
You’ll have to ask George Lucas..............
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posted on
01/20/2011 5:44:24 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Whenever these vermin call you an 'idiot', you can be sure that you are doing something right.)
To: Red Badger
Seeing "25 comets in just ten days, that's unprecedented," Karl Battams, of the United States Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., said in a statement. "It was crazy!" Er, they've only had the scope up since 1995. You would need centuries or millenia or even mega-years of data before you could determine what is "unprecedented" or "crazy".
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posted on
01/20/2011 5:45:56 AM PST
by
Seruzawa
(If you agree with the French raise your hand - If you are French raise both hands.)
To: Red Badger
What ever happened to our FRiend who posted the “Astronomy Picture Of The Day”?
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posted on
01/20/2011 5:51:41 AM PST
by
gigster
To: Red Badger
Youll have to ask George Lucas.............. he's tied up
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posted on
01/20/2011 5:53:44 AM PST
by
Vaquero
(BHO....'The Pretenda from Kenya')
To: gigster
I think he may have gone off into the heavens.............
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posted on
01/20/2011 5:54:00 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Whenever these vermin call you an 'idiot', you can be sure that you are doing something right.)
To: Seruzawa
Yes and we get the same kind of Unprecedented statements about global warming and Holes in the Ozone layer.
All of these statements are a bunch of hog wash because the insignificant amount of data available.
But because a scientist says it the press picks it up and writes about it like it is profound. NO questioning permitted it is the consensus of scientific truth.
Your not a denier are you?
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posted on
01/20/2011 6:04:02 AM PST
by
Pontiac
To: Pontiac
Proud “denier” since forever.
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posted on
01/20/2011 6:25:28 AM PST
by
Seruzawa
(If you agree with the French raise your hand - If you are French raise both hands.)
To: Pontiac
Comets lose mass every time they pass the sun.
If the solar system is “billions” of years old,
why are there still comets?
There’s been no observation of any “comet factory” on the edge of the solar system.
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posted on
01/20/2011 6:27:39 AM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
To: gigster; sig226
FReeper sig226 got disgusted with some of the stupidity and viciousness thrown around FR back in Sept. and said “Good-Bye.”
IMO, it was FR’s loss.
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posted on
01/20/2011 6:30:07 AM PST
by
Roccus
To: SunkenCiv; The Comedian
To: MrB
There's no “comet factory,” but there is a “comet bank” called the Kuiper belt out beyond the gas giants.
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posted on
01/20/2011 6:39:26 AM PST
by
VanShuyten
("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
To: gigster
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posted on
01/20/2011 6:42:31 AM PST
by
Cheburashka
(Democratic Underground - the Hogwarts of Stupid.)
To: MrB
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posted on
01/20/2011 6:45:55 AM PST
by
Cheburashka
(Democratic Underground - the Hogwarts of Stupid.)
To: VanShuyten
Kuiper belt and “Oort” cloud are hypothetical “rescuing devices” for the problem.
A few hundred KBO’s have been actually been observed,
but in order to be the source of short period comets,
there would have to be billions of observable ice balls out there.
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posted on
01/20/2011 6:46:12 AM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
To: MrB
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posted on
01/20/2011 7:25:06 AM PST
by
FroggyTheGremlim
(My memory's not as sharp as it used to be. Also, my memory's not as sharp as it used to be.)
To: eCSMaster
Again, a proposed, hypothetical rescuing device.
Basically, this thing HAS to exist (though we haven’t observed it) in order to account for the problem of short period comets and billions of years.
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01/20/2011 7:27:15 AM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
To: SunkenCiv; CJ Wolf; houeto; Quix; null and void; B4Ranch; Whenifhow; Silentgypsy; FromLori; ...
Snowball's-chance ping.
(Thanks for the ping Silentgypsy!)
"Space Energy/Solar Weirdness" ping.
Ping list dealing with odd space phenomena and solar events.
FReepmail me if you want on or off
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Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
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posted on
01/20/2011 7:51:56 AM PST
by
The Comedian
("Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice" - B. Goldwater)
To: The Comedian
SOUNDS LIKE more
“SIGNS IN THE HEAVENS”
of the END TIMES
to me.
Didn’t happen the first 50 years of my life anything like they have the last 10 years.
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posted on
01/20/2011 7:57:31 AM PST
by
Quix
(Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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