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Newly spotted comet may outshine the full moon
New Scientist ^
| Tuesday, September 25, 2012
| Jeff Hecht
Posted on 09/26/2012 6:29:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Is it accepting passengers?
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posted on
09/26/2012 7:04:12 PM PDT
by
South40
("Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance." - Barack Hussein Obama - Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009.)
To: mylife; SunkenCiv; cripplecreek
Halley BopTHIS IS THE THREAD POLICE! DROP THE MOUSE AND STEP SLOWLY AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER!
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posted on
09/26/2012 7:04:22 PM PDT
by
bigheadfred
(juuuussst kidding)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
09/26/2012 7:05:09 PM PDT
by
Tuanedge
(Tigers don't eat horns.)
To: bigheadfred
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posted on
09/26/2012 7:05:28 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: mylife; SunkenCiv
It would be funny if the previous user left the roof shut, and put a photograph over the scope opening .... 8<)
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posted on
09/26/2012 7:06:51 PM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
09/26/2012 7:08:14 PM PDT
by
Tuanedge
(Tigers don't eat horns.)
To: no-to-illegals
Calls for math skills.
Something like that crunches most of the numbers for you.
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posted on
09/26/2012 7:08:27 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: PrkChps
“Then it turns out to be crap. Just like Obama.”
Hopefully Comet Barack will miss on it's near earth collision course; and head back out to outer space to never be heard from again.
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posted on
09/26/2012 7:09:41 PM PDT
by
HereInTheHeartland
(Encourage all of your Democrat friends to get out and vote on November 7th, the stakes are high.)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Somehow I don’t think you could focus up that close.
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posted on
09/26/2012 7:10:02 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: mylife
Gee, must we get crunched? What numbers are we talking about there in that scope?
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posted on
09/26/2012 7:12:32 PM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
(Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
To: PrkChps
Ditto. These comets are always as oversold as a New England snowstorm in March - they always fizzle out after much hype. I remember Kahoutek as a boy, our teachers had us thinking a momentous event was about to happen but it turned out that you needed a telescope to see it. Halley was also a major dud after years of hype.
The only comet that somewhat measured up during my lifetime was Hale-Bopp in 1997 - the one that caused that Heaven's Gate cult to commit mass-suicide. At least that one you could spot with the naked eye and while not exactly spectacular, it was something you could look up in the sky and actually see without having to rig up a telescope.
Comets pretty much suck wind. I did like Bill Haley and his Comets however.
To: no-to-illegals
Well with all moving objects calculations must be made.
We are moving, it is moving.
We need to know its path and our path.
Catching a baseball is a lot easier LoL
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posted on
09/26/2012 7:16:07 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: MestaMachine
In ancient times comets were looked upon in fear. When looking at one in a scope it is no wonder why. The naked eye seeing one caused mass hysteria in ancient times. Was supposed to be a predictor of terrible events to come. Thus is a message being sent by Heaven? Unknown, but thinking we will soon find out.
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posted on
09/26/2012 7:17:18 PM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
(Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
To: mylife
yep. Constructing the path to be taken, by a comet, is nearly a shot in the dark. Comets appear from nowhere, and the calculations are normally thirty percent to forty percent correct on the path. Whoever said our planet (Earth) sits in the middle of a shooting gallery knew exactly what was true.
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posted on
09/26/2012 7:21:11 PM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
(Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
To: no-to-illegals
Lots of exposure to error at astronomical distances.
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posted on
09/26/2012 7:24:08 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: no-to-illegals
Constructing the path to be taken, by a comet, is nearly a shot in the dark. Comets appear from nowhere, and the calculations are normally thirty percent to forty percent correct on the path
Sorry, this is completely wrong.
the orbit has already been calculated with quite high precision in just a few days.
The uncertainty lies with how bright it gets - THAT is a shot in the dark. Or whether the comet breaks up as it approaches the sun.
To: Strategerist
May you be correct. Sometimes though one does not plan for the wrench to go into the works. That wrench can be wicked for tearing up things, even the best of calculations. May you be correct though.
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posted on
09/26/2012 7:34:05 PM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
(Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
To: PrkChps
Kohoutek was definitely visible to the naked eye in the US. I remember it quite well and somewhere I have photographs of it.
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posted on
09/26/2012 7:36:01 PM PDT
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: no-to-illegals
May you be correct. Sometimes though one does not plan for the wrench to go into the works. That wrench can be wicked for tearing up things, even the best of calculations. May you be correct though.
You're not going to wake up one morning and find out that it's going to hit Earth.
I have a feeling you avoid astronomy sites and rely on nutter information.
Newtonian gravitation has been around for hundreds of years and we understand it quite well.
To: no-to-illegals
I saw Halley’s Comet at a local observatory. Quite a letdown. You could duplicate the experience by sitting in a large dark room looking through a Coke bottle at a nitelite at the opposite end of the room.
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posted on
09/26/2012 7:39:43 PM PDT
by
Don@VB
(Power Corrupts)
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