[Credit: NASA, ESA, SOHO; Video Editing: Babak Tafreshi (TWAN)]
So the comet is still visible, but it just isn’t what it used to be. Aren’t we all.....aren’t we all.
I know I’ve said this before, but I wanted again to thank you for posting APOD along with your other stuff.
It’s a wonderful diversion from the more pedestrian matters of politics and something most of us just don’t think to do on our own.
It’s good to take a step back and behold he mysteries of God’s creation shown in the wonders of His universe.
Wittke et al. (1) state
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The impactor mostlikely broke apart in solar orbit before en-countering Earth, as do most comets, includ-ing Comet Shoemaker
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Levy 9.
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However,Shoemaker
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Levy 9 broke up while in orbitabout Jupiter, and the tidal fragmentationprocess leading to impact on Jupiter doesnot apply to comets in solar orbit or for ap-proaches to terrestrial planets (4). A sponta-neous breakup in heliocentric space, suchas one recent example (5), would have tobe exquisitely timed for an expanding cloudof fragments to strike the Earth. Near-Earthcomets have average lifetimes of at least acentury before breaking up. Within monthsafter disintegration the comet fragmentswould be dispersed over an area much greaterthan that spanned by the Earth, preclud-ing many nearly simultaneous impacts.Thus, dispersed impacts of multiple frag-ments would be at least 1,000 times lessfrequent (probable) than the impact of asingle nucleus.
I’m sorry I missed this one:
ISON’S Incoming Debris Hitting the Sun.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3101698/posts
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Idiocy
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[based on the search hits on that title, it’s more nutbar talk about how the “real” information about the “threat” of Comet ISON is being “suppressed”]