Posted on 01/16/2013 4:04:36 PM PST by BenLurkin
We will soon see the usual suspects claiming it will kill us all.
Wait for Terral03 to post more hilarious videos online about how we should hide in a cave with him.
That is, unless he’s still hiding in a cave after Elenin fizzled out.
Huh? The sun is 800,000 miles in diameter. It is quite warm. It ain't gonna survive if it comes that close. It'll have to go by at night. ;0)
After Haley’s, Khotek and the others that have been a disappointment, I’ll believe it when I see it.
Ditto. We've been set up too many times with hype that fizzled.
Comet West in Feb. 1976 was quite impressive.
When is supposed to be visible? I did not see that in the article. Thanks
During August 2013, it should become bright enough to be visible through small telescopes or binoculars, becoming visible to the naked eye by late October or early November and remaining so until mid-January 2014.
Thanks BenLurkin.
In before the Kahoutek snarks (I hope, actually didn’t check).
Hale-Bopp was pretty good. I got some decent pictures of it even in the mucked up skies of Prince George’s County, Peoples’ Demokratik Republik of Maryland ...
I remember going (downhill snow) sliding with my then 10 yo son in early April of 1997. We were still sliding past sunset. Comet Hale-Bopp was easily visible almost immediately after the sun disappeared over the horizon.
It was quite spectacular.
32,000 miles
According to Space Weather, On Nov. 28, 2013, it will fly through the sun’s outer atmosphere only 1.2 million km from the stellar surface below. If the comet survives the encounter, it could emerge glowing as brightly as the Moon, ...”
(quibble: 865,000 miles)
Comets graze the Sun quite often, most survive, some don’t.
Comet Encke took a lickin’, kept on tickin’:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071001145018.htm
http://www.nasa.gov/mpg/191092main_encke_visualization.mpg
http://spider.seds.org/spider/Comets/encke.html
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/186530/Enckes-Comet
http://www.universetoday.com/87305/comet-encke/
I LOL’D
Not quite IBTKS....
missed by THAT much! LOL! (And he didn’t spell it right)
Thanks for the ping, though,hahaha.
Later this year sometime in the Fall I think.
There have been some great comets in the last 50 or so years.
Kohouteck was a fizzle, but, then there was Comet West a few years later. It looked like a giant spotlight in the sky. IT was HUGH! I am SIRIUS!
Halley’s wasn’t bad either in 1986. Up to that point, it was the second brightest comet I had seen, West being the first.
Then there was the Great Comets of the 90’s Hyakutake and Hale-Bopp.
In the last few years, Comet McNaught 2006 (the great comet of 2007) and Lovejoy in 2012 have made quite a splash recently.
Will ISON make it? Who knows. They thought Lovejoy was going to disappear and it put on a great show. Just wish it would be in the evening, not, the morning.
Also, in March, look for Comet PANSTARRS. It may give us something at sunset in the middle of the month.
This was a good one too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_IRAS%E2%80%93Araki%E2%80%93Alcock
It just went zipping by stars while you watched.
http://home.comcast.net/~waccoo/walt1.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~waccoo/walt2.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~waccoo/walt3.jpg
Would have embedded them, but, I never have much luck with that. Click and enjoy.
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