LOL, in your dreams.
It didn't self-destruct - it turned.
The keys to its peak visibility were the closeness it would eventually have to ... Earth in mid-October (0.23 a.u.).
LOL, in your nightmares.
It's protected by a force field.
Posted on 08/31/2011 10:00:43 PM PDT by djf
I find it hard to believe anything the size of a comet could cause a quake unless it hit us.
But I remember when it was first discovered, they were saying that based on what they were seeing then, and the orbital projections, that this could be one of the most spectacular naked-eye comets ever seen.
Then, all a sudden like, it just fell off the map.
LOL...great post.
Yeah, I've been listening to too much C2C recently. But it is good entertainment.
And the novices up on 40 meters always need someone to practice with, plodding along at 8WPM.
/johnny
It’s a shame it fell apart. I was thinking back when my Wife and I went outside at 4:00 AM to see Hale Bopp. It was an amazing site.
LOL, in your dreams.
It didn't self-destruct - it turned.
The keys to its peak visibility were the closeness it would eventually have to ... Earth in mid-October (0.23 a.u.).
LOL, in your nightmares.
It's protected by a force field.
Scientists used the new Earth Bound Comet Clobberator to break up the comet in a recent test.
This is a secret so don’t tell anyone, O.K.?
Are you sure that’s not some alien ship? I’ve never seen a comet that was three sided and bright red. Tetra...what?
I did see a Comet shaped like a pancake but a eighteen wheeler had run over it and it was hard to tell what color it was.
Global warming is melting the comets!
I think I see the comet....I do! I do!!!
And Bush did nothing to stop it!
Weird stuff.
I hope it hits my neighbor's house. That guy always plays his radio too loud.
-PJ
Amazing, to say the least. Thanks very much. I’m going to share that.
“LOL, in your dreams.
It didn’t self-destruct - it turned.”
Actually, the “turn” is exactly what it should have done; it’s due to STEREO-B’s perspective of the comet, it didn’t literally “turn.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwuVyAzm3Q8
As for the current dimming and diffusion of the apparent nucleus, I encourage you to look at the raw fits image files from STEREO’s SECCHI image database, not the processed web versions. The latter go through a ton of processing, which destroys your ability to make photometry measurements of any object in the field of view. If you look at the raw originals it was much brighter just a few weeks ago compared to now (though it’s definitely on the low end of the histogram both then and now).
Due to HI-1’s wide field of view, 20 degrees wide, 113.31 arcseconds per pixel (almost 2 arcminutes), it is not possible to notice the elongation of the apparent nucleus seen in ground images taken with long focal length telescopes.
I guess all those pseudoscientific bloggers who predicted planet-altering encounters with a cosmic visitor bright enough to be seen in broad daylight will just have to find something else to worry about.
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