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Big comet plunging toward our Sun
Spaceweather.com ^ | 4-16-04 | Orlando

Posted on 04/16/2004 1:17:04 PM PDT by Orlando

Comet Bradfield is plunging toward the sun; at closest approach on April 17th it will be well inside the orbit of Mercury. Sun-approaching comets sometimes break-apart. Will Comet Bradfield survive? No one knows.


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KEYWORDS: allyourmeltedcomets; arebelongtous; asteroid; bradfield; callingartbell; comet; cometbradfield; endoftheworld; nasa; soho; space; sun; wearedoomed
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To: Orlando
Comet Bradfield is plunging toward the sun; at closest approach on April 17th it will be well inside the orbit of Mercury.

Does this mean that those disgusting reruns of "Third Rock From The Sun" will no longer be shown because it is no longer a valid title?

Or (gasp) will it mean another sitcom titled "Fourth Rock From The Sun".

Alas, this thread is leading me to frustration!

61 posted on 04/16/2004 8:03:07 PM PDT by EGPWS
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To: EGPWS
This is cool to watch, and it should be very interesting to see what happens later on today if it breaks up , or melts ? I am surprise the media is not reporting this event.

I would like to know the real size of this comet.
Does anybody know ?
62 posted on 04/16/2004 8:16:38 PM PDT by Orlando (www.mensnewsdaily.com, www.mensactivism.org (Support Fathers/Veteran Rights)
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To: socal_parrot; Thinkin' Gal; RadioAstronomer
We're DOOMED!

Dammit, I filed my tax returns for no reason.

63 posted on 04/16/2004 8:27:31 PM PDT by general_re (The doors to Heaven and Hell are adjacent and identical... - Nikos Kazantzakis)
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To: bert
"The comet will be assimilated as will all other matter orbiting the sun."

The Earth, and a few other outer planets, will be blown out into space as Sol turns into a red giant in powerful spasms that will absorb Mercury and Venus. A powerful solar wind will simultaneously blast away Earth's atmosphere, water and crust and likely blow the entire planet into space in a long stream of eroding dust. Sol will become a white dwarf.

Have a nice day. We still have about 5 billion years to go.
64 posted on 04/16/2004 8:30:18 PM PDT by HighWheeler (Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. - Marion Barry)
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To: Orlando
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/Comets/Soft00Cmt.txt gives the abolute magnitude as 10.0. Looking that up in http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/Sizes.html for an icy body (albedo = 0.5) gives a diameter of 19 kilometers. Lots of assumptions and uncertainty are in that estimate, but it at least will give you a general idea.
65 posted on 04/16/2004 8:34:20 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Clinton, advised by Dick Clarke, did nothing. - Ann Coulter 4/1/04, How 9-11 Happened)
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To: Orlando
Here's a better and closer image of our sun from the military.


http://lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/cgi-bin/latest_img.cgi?c3+gifs
66 posted on 04/16/2004 8:54:06 PM PDT by Orlando (www.mensnewsdaily.com, www.mensactivism.org (Support Fathers/Veteran Rights)
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To: KarlInOhio
Thank You
67 posted on 04/16/2004 8:55:54 PM PDT by Orlando (www.mensnewsdaily.com, www.mensactivism.org (Support Fathers/Veteran Rights)
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To: Orlando
This is cool to watch, and it should be very interesting to see what happens later on today if it breaks up , or melts ?

Me thinks that it will dissolve, evaporate and nothing will ever be heard about it again.

JMHO.

Of course those d@mn reruns of "Third Rock From The Sun" will NOT follow the same course! : (

Yes it is interesting, and the thought of having the knowledge and technology to be able to even contemplate, with any sort of available accuracy, of what might happen is definitely an idea worth pondering for the, realm of space, curious.

68 posted on 04/16/2004 8:56:05 PM PDT by EGPWS
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To: general_re
Dammit, I filed my tax returns for no reason.

The reason will ALWAYS be there, however your "reasonable" thoughts on filing will never, ever be an issue of contemplation for the IRS!

69 posted on 04/16/2004 8:59:40 PM PDT by EGPWS
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To: Orlando
Too cool for words bump!
70 posted on 04/16/2004 9:12:19 PM PDT by abner (FREE THE MIRANDA MEMOS! http://www.intelmemo.com or http://www.wintersoldier.com)
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To: socal_parrot
The sky is falling!
71 posted on 04/16/2004 11:04:30 PM PDT by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace (Michael <a href = "http://www.michaelmoore.com/" title="Miserable Failure">"Miserable Failure"</a>)
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To: Orlando; maxwell
Big?

It's hugh!

(And I'm series about this: it's gonna come back later!)
72 posted on 04/16/2004 11:09:05 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only support FR by donating monthly, but ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: 21st Century Man
Don't worry. These 3 "hapless redshirts" will be beaming down to investigate the comet first.

I'm sure they'll be just fine.....:)

73 posted on 04/17/2004 12:43:43 AM PDT by Salamander
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
"I am surprise the media is not reporting this event. " - it's going to come back later !
one of the reasons why the media isn't reporting this unpredecented event.
74 posted on 04/17/2004 12:57:05 AM PDT by Truth666
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To: RipSawyer
This thread has gotten excreable. LOL.
75 posted on 04/17/2004 1:02:09 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter (06/07/04 - 1000 days since 09/11/01)
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To: HighWheeler
The Earth, and a few other outer planets, will be blown out into space as Sol turns into a red giant in powerful spasms that will absorb Mercury and Venus. .....


Ok, in the event the process described above works out to be reality, then the earth will resume it's path into the maw of the black hole at the center of the galaxy on a modified course.

We are still discussing how specific molecules will travel. Earth molecules will still make that trip perhaps not as the Sol amalgamation.
76 posted on 04/17/2004 5:12:16 AM PDT by bert (Save People.... Kill Terrorists)
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To: bert
The comet will be assimilated as will all other matter orbiting the sun. Gravity is inexorable.

There is NO gravity, the earth sucks! :^ )

CC

77 posted on 04/17/2004 5:13:31 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (This is my tagline. There are many like it, but this one is mine...)
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To: Truth666; maxwell
" it's going to come back later !

...one of the reasons why the media isn't reporting this unpredecented event.

But you would think that at least periodicals would cover it.

78 posted on 04/17/2004 6:10:24 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only support FR by donating monthly, but ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Orlando
Ever read a book by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven called "Luicifer's Hammer?" This is how the book started out. It finished like Robinson Crusoe
79 posted on 04/17/2004 7:10:34 AM PDT by ExSoldier (When the going gets tough, the tough go cyclic.)
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To: Orlando
At least they won't be able to blame global warming anymore.
80 posted on 04/17/2004 7:24:06 AM PDT by MissAmericanPie
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