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Comet Flies By Mars Today in Rare Encounter: Watch It Online
Space.com ^ | 10/19/14 | Miriam Kramer

Posted on 10/19/2014 9:23:08 AM PDT by messierhunter

A comet from the outer reaches of the solar system is due to give Mars a close shave on Sunday (Oct. 19), and you can watch the flyby live online.

While Comet Siding Spring (also called Comet C/2013 A1) isn't easy to spot from Earth, a couple different astronomy organizations will be tracking the comet as it flies 87,000 miles (139,500 kilometers) from Mars at 2:27 p.m. EDT (1827 GMT) on Sunday. The comet will fly three times closer to Mars than the moon is to Earth.

(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; comet; mars; sidingspring
Links to watch live webcasts are available in the article. I did my own little webcast last night and put together this time lapse of the comet approaching Mars:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjNoxEL45vU
1 posted on 10/19/2014 9:23:08 AM PDT by messierhunter
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To: messierhunter

Has NASA already broadcasted to the public that this was a Muslim discovery?

If not, why not?


2 posted on 10/19/2014 9:29:59 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: messierhunter

Three times closer?


3 posted on 10/19/2014 9:43:42 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: 353FMG

Islam invented math, geometry, rockets, bowtie pasta, chiclets, condoms, breakfast, havest moons, monopoly, cigars, crayons, dung beetles, you name it.


4 posted on 10/19/2014 9:44:51 AM PDT by Eddie01 (Liberals lie about everything all the time.)
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To: messierhunter

Johnson & Johnson put it up there with a banner trailing behind that reads, <...TRY NEW AND IMPROVED COMET TODAY!...>


5 posted on 10/19/2014 9:45:44 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: messierhunter

Wonder if BPEarthbotch will admit he was wrong?

Not likely, he’ll just keep droning on in that stoned monotone..


6 posted on 10/19/2014 9:51:56 AM PDT by Darksheare (People who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: lepton
1/3 = 3X

New math

7 posted on 10/19/2014 9:53:58 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: Eddie01

Don’t forget if it wasn’t for the Barbary pirates we would never have Sesame Street. They tried to teach us such love and happiness like Sesame Street.


8 posted on 10/19/2014 9:55:25 AM PDT by crazydad
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To: Eddie01
Islam "invented" stuff AFTER studying the WESTERN Greek philosophers who initially "invented" the stuff.
9 posted on 10/19/2014 9:56:17 AM PDT by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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To: Slyfox

Islam is a violent phonographic cult.


10 posted on 10/19/2014 10:09:16 AM PDT by Eddie01 (Liberals lie about everything all the time.)
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To: Eddie01

Wonder how Sadie Mae Glutz is doing these days?


11 posted on 10/19/2014 10:11:29 AM PDT by Eddie01 (Liberals lie about everything all the time.)
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To: messierhunter

Another link:

http://www.space.com/19195-night-sky-planets-asteroids-webcasts.html


12 posted on 10/19/2014 10:17:24 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: messierhunter
The slooh.com broadcast about this comet begins in just under an hour:

http://live.slooh.com/

They usually have pretty interesting commentary along with live images.

13 posted on 10/19/2014 10:20:38 AM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: equaviator

14 posted on 10/19/2014 10:26:05 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: going hot

Thank you! I am so tired of hearing magnitudes of small! Three times fewer, five times closer, twice as thin. Tech commercials are the biggest offenders.


15 posted on 10/19/2014 10:58:24 AM PDT by Hessian (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.)
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To: Zeppo

OK, the broadcast is starting now.


16 posted on 10/19/2014 11:14:20 AM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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