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NASA Photos Show Outburst from Potential 'Comet of the Century'
space.com ^
| July 23, 2013 04:59pm
| Mike Wall, SPACE.com Senior Writer |
Posted on 07/24/2013 6:55:58 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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posted on
07/24/2013 6:55:58 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
As long as there’s no Hammer Fall we’re cool.
To: BenLurkin
Increased Sun Spot activity is why Comet are associated with bad times on Earth.
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posted on
07/24/2013 7:00:58 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
To: SunkenCiv; BenLurkin
APOD bonus ping.
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posted on
07/24/2013 7:06:50 AM PDT
by
Squawk 8888
(I'd give up chocolate but I'm no quitter)
To: BenLurkin
Hope it’s better than Halley’s Comet turned out to be. Course, that’s not sayin’ much, seeing as how Halley’s Comet was as luminous and exciting as the signal indicator on a 63 Biscayne...
To: Black Agnes
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posted on
07/24/2013 7:19:14 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
To: BenLurkin
Comet....it’ll make your teeth turn green
Comet....it tastes like gasoline
Comet...it’ll make you vomit
So get some Comet, and vomit, today
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posted on
07/24/2013 7:20:17 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Doctor 2Brains
Yeah, the last Halley’s show was the worst viewing in many centuries. The one right before that was spectacular, though.
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posted on
07/24/2013 7:20:56 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
To: null and void
Hopefully not.
That book scared me. The thought of a 2000ft wave coming in from the GOM is numbing.
To: Black Agnes
It wouldn’t be the first time. The rapids way up the Brazos river are turbidite deposits from Chicxulub.
That was a bad day to be a dinosaur...
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posted on
07/24/2013 7:26:35 AM PDT
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null and void
(Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
To: null and void
Will this comet produce a spectacular meteor shower for centuries to come? That is what produces m. showers, after all.
To: null and void
I wonder just how far inland that wave went. Wasn’t the shoreline vastly different then? I haven’t been able to find any really good answers to that one. Closest estimate I can find is something like 150km inland. Staggering if true.
To: Black Agnes
That I simply don't know. 150 km sounds like a reasonable guess for flat shorelines near the strike. The crater is about 120 km in diameter today, and all the water it displaced had to go
somehwere. And that wasn't the worst of it...
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posted on
07/24/2013 7:46:05 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
To: BenLurkin
From the description “blasting out huge amounts of gas” what are they going to name the comet? Obama Comet? Congressional Comet? Hillary Comet?
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posted on
07/24/2013 7:54:04 AM PDT
by
2nd Amendment
(Proud member of the 48% . . giver not a taker)
To: BenLurkin
I don’t see how a comet that gets as close as 724,000 miles from the Sun could possibly survive. The temperatures in the corona alone would bust it up nicely.
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posted on
07/24/2013 7:55:38 AM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(So Obama "inherited" a mess? Firemen "inherit" messes too. Ever see one put gasoline on it?)
To: Doctor 2Brains
63 Biscayne, all jacked up.
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posted on
07/24/2013 8:16:41 AM PDT
by
fella
("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again,")
To: 2nd Amendment
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posted on
07/24/2013 8:23:22 AM PDT
by
Errant
To: BenLurkin
Bigger than comet Kohoutek?
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posted on
07/24/2013 8:25:55 AM PDT
by
Hoodat
(BENGHAZI - 4 KILLED, 2 MIA)
To: null and void
The one right before that was spectacular, though.The next one is supposed to be spectacular as well.
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posted on
07/24/2013 8:27:28 AM PDT
by
Hoodat
(BENGHAZI - 4 KILLED, 2 MIA)
To: fella
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