Comet Makes Suicidal Plunge Into Sun (Video)

Space.com ^ | 8/20/13 | Mike Wall

[LibWhacker]

Nice video at link.

[Squawk 8888]

Of interest.

[Black Agnes]

As long as it’s far far far away from Earth.

Although a Hamner-Brown event might put a wrench into even the NSA’s picnic party.

[mikrofon]

Resultant Solar Indigestion?

[Haiku Guy]

Comets cannot commit suicide. They do not think and do not decide where they go.

That is all.

[Resolute Conservative]

Suicide by global warming...

[Night Hides Not]

Suicide by global warming...

The comet should have made its trip at night.

[Lakeshark]

The comet couldn't abide those poor polar bears dying on those itty bitty ice flows......

[b4its2late]

Correct. My thoughts exactly. It didn’t decide to destroy itself, it just happened to get too close to the sun.

[BwanaNdege]

Comets cannot commit suicide. They do not think and do not decide where they go.

It sounds like the writer, Mike Wall, needs to breathe slowly into a paper bag while thinking of butterflies and little ponies. DO NOT let him drive vehicles or heavy equipment while in this hyper-excited state!

[BwanaNdege]

I just watched the video. Was that a SPLAT!!! about the time the remnants of the comet would have hit?

[KarlInOhio]

Does it get 72 virgin comets from the Oort cloud?

[WayneS]

Did it have a history of depression?

[WayneS]

Suicide by Sun
Only in one’s fantasies
Anthropromorphic

[Errant]

Looks like it. Not the first time a comet has seemed to create a CME at the moment of impact. ISON is much more massive but “suppose” to miss.

[LibWhacker]

I've been wondering about that, too. The eruption happened all over the Sun's surface simultaneously at the very moment the comet reached the western limb. But the Sun is 800,000 miles across, and it would take a ray of light about four seconds to travel that distance, more for any other kind of disturbance that propagated from the point of impact across the surface or through the interior of the Sun. So it must have been a coincidence. But that seems soooooooo unlikely! I hope someone can explain it because I surely cannot.

[LibWhacker]

ISON is supposed to approach the Sun within 750,000 miles or so. The nucleus of the comet is three miles across, compared to this little guy yesterday that was estimated to have been only a few tens of meters across. If Jupiter could rip Shoemaker-Levy apart, what will the Sun do to ISON when it approaches so closely? As it stands now, ISON isn’t supposed to approach the Earth any closer than 40 million miles, but that’s assuming it leaves the inner solar system in one piece. The odds of any piece of it hitting us is probably slim, but it’s got my attention!

[Errant]

but that’s assuming it leaves the inner solar system in one piece.

Exactly. Did you see what a CME that "miniscule" comet caused - if indeed it did, and I've seen others cause similar. Makes you wonder if the government getting stupid with prepping and unconcerned printing, has sumpin' to do with it...

[Errant]

There is another comet out there coming so close to Mars soon, that you can’t separated if from the planet using NASA small body simulator.

[Errant]

See for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=comet+hits+sun&oq=comet+hits+sun&gs_l=youtube.3..0l2.1920.8054.0.8336.26.15.6.5.6.0.163.1492.10j5.15.0...0.0...1ac.1.11.youtube.xwLMmLXd1hI.

Happens too often to be coincidence!