>> “The coma wings suggest the presence of two or more sub-nuclei with individual expanding atmospheres in the overall cometary coma and may indicate nucleus splitting in the comet,” they said.
Sounds like astroboffin talk all right.
Wonder what it means.
A Progressive comet. Should have named it 0bama.
Is this the one which is supposed to be brightening right now, and become the comet of a lifetime?
We should know soon enough.
I should have known better than to believe the hype about this being such a bright comet. I was around in ‘73 when Comet Kohoutek was found and deemed “The Comet of the Century”. All hype. It to was a dud.
As much as I would like to see it, I am not getting up at 5AM to see this thing.
The Sixth Seal—Terror [Revelation 6]
12 I looked when He broke the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood; 13 and the stars of the sky fell to the earth, as a fig tree casts its unripe figs when shaken by a great wind. 14 The sky was split apart like a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. 15 Then the kings of the earth and the great men and the commanders and the rich and the strong and every slave and free man hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains; 16 and they said to the mountains and to the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the presence of Him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb; 17 for the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”
She’s dead Jim!
ISON is soon to be known as ISOFF :)
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Zero chance of it hitting Earth....
BUT!!!!!!
Right now it is blow the ecliptic (the plane the Earths orbit is on). Soon, after it’s closest approach to the sun, it will cross back to being above the ecliptic.
Around the time, it will cross the Earths orbit. I mean almost exactly the Earths orbit.
Earth won’t be there - not yet, anyways.
IF the comet disintegrates, there is a very, very, very good chance that come the end of April/beginning of May 2014, you will see some of the pieces. Because that is when the Earth will pass through the debris cloud.
It could be a total dud. It could be the most spectacular meteor storm the Earth has seen since it’s early history.
looks like it passes above the plane and crosses with the earth
that being said, if it breaks up I'd say it's a crap shoot whether or not some of it hits the earth