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Self-Destructing Comet To Flash Close By
New Scientist ^ | 4-24-2006 | Kimm Groshong

Posted on 04/25/2006 2:17:04 PM PDT by blam

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Big comet plunging toward our Sun
Spaceweather.com | 4-16-04 | Orlando
Posted on 04/16/2004 4:17:04 PM EDT by Orlando
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1119037/posts
[lots of fun stupidity from Truth666, now banned]

Loud Bang and House Shaking in Lycoming County Pa. ( Thread 2 )
Source: Myself
Author: Refinersfire
Posted on 07/23/2001 18:21:01 PDT by VRWC For Truth
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b5ccd7d1d7f.htm
[from Blam]
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b5ccd7d1d7f.htm#90


41 posted on 04/26/2006 2:06:53 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: vannrox

a little more about Clube and Napier:

The missing sun temples! (Where are they?)
Al-Ahram Weekly (Egypt) | 2 - 8 January 2003 | Jill Kamil
Posted on 01/03/2003 6:59:47 PM EST by vannrox
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/816502/posts


42 posted on 04/26/2006 2:09:54 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Eastbound

That kind of choice could put me in a coma.

[rimshot!]


43 posted on 04/26/2006 2:15:35 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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It's a big solar system and somebody has to clean it:


44 posted on 04/26/2006 2:23:53 AM PDT by WestVirginiaRebel (Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
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To: SunkenCiv

The gravity of the situation could be astronomical!


45 posted on 04/26/2006 8:58:45 AM PDT by Eastbound
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To: Eastbound

From your elipse to God's ear...


46 posted on 04/26/2006 3:26:16 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: blam

nine months later... I noticed a photo of a very prominent comet from 1970 (not this one, another one) and it looked like the one I remember seeing early one morning when my dad woke me up to have a look at it (that was Comet Bennett).

Comet West
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_West

From Wikipedia During the comet's first run into the inner solar system for the first time in 500,000 years, the nucleus of Comet West was observed to split into four fragments as it passed within 30 million km. of the sun.

The first report of the split came around 7 March 1976 12:30UT, when reports were received that the comet had broken into two pieces. These two fragments remained the only pieces until Steven O'Meara, using the 9-inch Harvard Refractor, reported that two additional fragments had formed on the morning of 18 March.

The breakup was one of very few comet breakups observed from historical times by the 1970's. Recently, comets Shoemaker-Levy 9, Schwassmann-Wachmann-3 (73/P), C/1999 S4 LINEAR, and 57/P du Toit-Neujmin-Delporte, have been observed to disintegrate.


47 posted on 01/11/2007 10:48:23 AM PST by SunkenCiv ("I've learned to live with not knowing." -- Richard Feynman https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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