Big comet plunging toward our Sun

Spaceweather.com ^ | 4-16-04 | Orlando

[Orlando]

Comet Bradfield is plunging toward the sun; at closest approach on April 17th it will be well inside the orbit of Mercury. Sun-approaching comets sometimes break-apart. Will Comet Bradfield survive? No one knows.

[ladyL]

Would like more information on this subject. Never been on a forum but would like to read comments. Thanx

[cmsgop]

Okay! What the heck happened in Seattle today, and what about this Meteor thingy later this month.

[Ichneumon]

For the same reason that, while evolution theory is a grotesque lie that can be exposed with evidence that a 6 years old child can understand, you never get that evidence in the media.

Go peddle your fantasies (and conspiracy theories) elsewhere, please. And stop bearing false witness, it reflects badly on Christians in general.

[Ichneumon]

Has NASA released any predictions of the effect of passing though the tail of a comet?

Well, given that the Earth passed through the tail of Halley's comet in the year [mumble] (too lazy to look it up right now) and there wasn't death raining from the sky, the prediction for similar occurrences is that the effect will be, "nothing much, in fact you wouldn't know it at all if not for seeing it on the news."

Comet tails are impressive, but they are *incredibly* tenuous. They make a fading puff of cigarette smoke look like chunky clam chowder in comparison, density-wise.

The Earth will just plow through it like it wasn't there, which for all practical purposes it almost isn't.

[Truth666]

That story (three impacts in June, tsunami, snowball interception & Co) is a hoax used as coverup.

[Ichneumon]

Images being withheld again by NASA - we want to know if the simulation is right .

ROFL! You just never stop, do you?

Hint: By the time the comet(s) cross the Earth's orbit in that picture, the Earth will have moved on to somewhere else.

Hint#2: Space, unlike your image, is 3D -- there's a *HUGE* amount of room for orbits to pass over/under each other, even if they look as if they "cross" on a flat plot like yours.

Hint#3: Although the Earth looks quite large on that (OUT OF SCALE) image, it would actually be a nearly invisible pinpoint if drawn to scale -- again, it's a lot easier for things to miss each other in the vastness of space than is implied by your drawing.

[Truth666]

Would like more information on this subject.
THIS THREAD is the best I can suggest, it is history. Read it from the beginning and you will see why that kind of news are meaningless.

[cmsgop]

Have you seen this?

http://www.bushcountry.org/news/jun_news_pages/g_060104_withheld_june_2004.htm

[Truth666]

Well there was still time for Venus to enter the scene before the final showdow
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1147080/posts?page=58#58

[Truth666]

Compare the sun flares in the last frame (here) before Venus enters the scene ...

with the first frame with Venus totally on stage (see previous link)

[Truth666]

Hint ... Space, unlike your image, is 3D -- there's a *HUGE* amount of room for orbits to pass ...
Well this is year 2004 after Christ and the

big numbers trick doesn't work anymore

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Hint : Imagine that SOHO had been in place for the last 120 years - longer than any person alive in this planet. It would be now, just a few minutes before, that Venus would have appeared plunging into the sun for the first time.

[Truth666]

the scene before the final showdown
Right at this moment: Brushfire Threatens Structures in Santa Barbara County (Reagan Ranch threatened)

Sometime before Ronald Reagan's death, this google search would have returned 3 results : the two pieces of the puzzle put together, one of them and a piece out of place (not useless, but used to confuse people).
Check which result is missing now.
Also right now in Italy, the FINAL Bilderberg MEETING under the Sun - as Venus appears for the first time to more than 6 billion people, and the two of the three people that were at the base of the furfillment of the third secret of Fatima start their last journey - on Earth and from Earth -
always larger swarms, shorter warning times and closer approaches
... this is year 2004 after Christ and the big numbers trick doesn't work anymore

[Truth666]

Common journey of Reagan and the Pope through end times ended long before Venus transit

[SunkenCiv]

I really miss the flakiness of Truth666. But anyway...

The Comet That Wasn’t There
By Brian P James

This speculation all seemed to erupt from web news published by NASA and Space.com, of a rare meteor shower that would be seen in the Southern hemisphere, and seen best from Antarctica, on March 1st. This meteor shower was from the material of the tail of Comet Bradfield (1976-D1 Bradfield to be precise). For some reason this perfectly normal news alert by NASA and Space.com (I get them every day by email) sparked all manner of speculation and conspiracy theory, to the point that this comet was due to collide with the earth. This ‘news’ then exploded all round conspiracy/UFO/new age websites – in some cases complete with fake photos of what was termed ‘The Nostradamus Comet’ over the ice-fields of Antarctica. The speculation got to the point where claims were made that NASA, the US Government and various astronomy websites were hiding information – as people had done web searches and couldn’t find Comet Bradfield! To be brutally honest, seldom has a no-story/non-event generated so much drivel (polite description for this publication) by people determined to speculate and hype based on a total lack of fact (and yes, I dare say boost their web-hits!).

Comet Bradfield Emerges from the Sun
After School Astronomy

Sky watchers in mid northern latitudes (that's us!) can now glimpse a recently discovered comet. Comet Bradfield, named after its discoverer, William A. Bradfield of Yankalilla, South Australia can now be seen low in the eastern sky just before sunrise. The comet is decreasing in brightness as it moves now further from the sun but can still be seen sporting a long vertical tail with any good pair of binoculars. Comet Bradfield was discovered just a month ago on March 23rd not long before it made its closest approach to the sun (called perihelion) on April 17th - just 25 million km from the sun. Comets are believed to originate from the outer solar system, beyond the orbit of Pluto in two regions called the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud and are thuoght to be remnants of the early solar system's formation. Often called "dirty snow balls", they are made of frozen carbon dioxide, water ice, silicates, ammonia, and a host of other molecules. Comets may have played a key role in the development of life on Earth. It is widely believed that they brought much of the water on our planet and have been observed to contain building blocks for amino acids such as Hydrogen Cyanide (HCN).

Analysis of past comets
C/2004 F4 (Bradfield)
Andreas Kammerer

According to these estimates the absolute coma diameter measured 40.000 - 80.000 km when the comet emerged in the morning sky, reaching 400.000 km at maximum, decreasing to 150.000 km at the end of June. The degree of condensation was extremely high at first (DC 8), decreasing steadily during the following weeks (end of June: DC 1). Thus the extremely diffuse coma could be the main reason that after the end of June no further visual sightings have been reported.

Comet Bradfield Passes the Sun
Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA

Today, Comet Bradfield is passing the Sun. The above image, taken yesterday in the direction of the Sun by the SOHO LASCO instrument, shows the comet and its dust tail as the elongated white streak. The Sun would normally be seen in the very centre but has been blocked from view. Comet C/2004 F4 (Bradfield) was discovered just one month ago and has brightened dramatically as it neared the Sun. Careful sky gazers can see Comet Bradfield with the unaided eye near the Sun, although NASA's sun-orbiting SOHO satellite has the best view. During the day, Comet Bradfield will continually shift inside the LASCO frame as it rounds the Sun. There is even the possibility that the comet will break up. If not, the bright comet's trajectory will carry it outside the field of LASCO sometime tomorrow. Along with T7 and Q4, Comet Bradfield is now the third comet that is currently visible on the sky with the unaided eye, the most ever of which we are aware and quite possibly the most in recorded history.