[messierhunter]

You don’t see how ISON never passed through Lovejoy’s tail in that animation?

[Yosemitest]

I can;t find a good enough model to convince me of it.
Between the two models, Ison's debris is outbound and climbing above Venus toward Earth,
while the other model shows LoveJoy below Earth and Mars climbing inward towards the Sun and above.
I can;t tell how close that they come between the two separate models, but they're within the same area between Earth and Venus and above our orbital plane.
If I had to guess, I'd say it's plausible, based on the length of LoveJoy's tail.

[NoCmpromiz]

You don’t see how ISON never passed through Lovejoy’s tail in that animation?

Some people even have trouble visualizing in two dimensions... and anything non-Euclidian is a couple AU over their heads...