Posted on 02/26/2013 9:02:24 AM PST by BenLurkin
Thanks
One of his first hits, 'Louisiana Man', pretty much describes his early childhood.
Is not ISON just a melt away from being nothing? No mass really to it at all?
I’ve seen estimates of 1 to 10km. Nothing official...
That puts it well above average and should mean it will put on a great show this fall, if true.
Here’s the last performance from that old PBS special, called “Fiddlers Three” with Jean Luc Ponty, Itzhak Perlman and Doug Kershaw joining for the finale:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3bF0vsGQOw
Yeah but it’s a virgin comet...
It’s just as likely to be a vapor trail of 100k miles and nothing else....as it passes near thanks to a few sunny rays..lol
And despite what officials are saying, if a breakup occurs at ISON's perihelion, it will be an even more amazing show, as surviving debris streams past the earth at 250,000 mph!
Hopefully at a safe 30 million km distance or more, since even the possibility of a really energetic breakup altering debris trajectories closer to the earth is slim, according to these same officials. lol
You have to have Java enabled to view the NASA interactive viewer at: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=c%2F2013%20a1;orb=1;cov=0;log=0;cad=0#orb
Screen shot below:
Ahh got ya....thanks.
Yeah you are right either way I think the show should be spectacular...!
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