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Big Breakup: That's The Way The Comet Crumbles
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| 5-7-2006
| Ron Cowen
Posted on 05/07/2006 9:14:17 AM PDT by blam
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posted on
05/07/2006 9:14:20 AM PDT
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blam
To: SunkenCiv; RightWhale
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posted on
05/07/2006 9:14:59 AM PDT
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blam
To: blam
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posted on
05/07/2006 9:17:54 AM PDT
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tomnbeverly
(Steer Clear Of Large Metropolitian Areas Because The Liberals Will Reap What They Sow.)
To: blam
OH NOES!!! THE EARTH SHALL PASS THROUGH IT'S TAIL AND WE SHALL ALL BE BLINDED AND OVERRUN WITH TRIFIDS!!!
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posted on
05/07/2006 9:18:25 AM PDT
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Dreagon
To: tomnbeverly
We know what happens next:
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posted on
05/07/2006 9:18:45 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: BenLurkin
OR ... ... ...
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posted on
05/07/2006 9:20:43 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: Dreagon
Nah... The Earth will collide with the celestial axis.
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posted on
05/07/2006 9:22:25 AM PDT
by
GSlob
To: BenLurkin
DOOMED !
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posted on
05/07/2006 9:24:10 AM PDT
by
cmsgop
( Please ! For The Love of God Verizon !!! NO MORE MICHAEL McDONALD !!!)
To: blam
"How can a body as weak as meringue come together on a kilometer scale, then fall apart?"*shrug* We have politicians like that...
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posted on
05/07/2006 9:31:22 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Hillary!™ would have been a big astronaut. Say that slowly)
To: BenLurkin
I for one welcome our new Norman overlords.
To: blam
I haven't looked, but I presume the usual assortment of Apolcalpytikook and Junk "science" sites are proclaiming that the comet chunks are going to hit earth on some specified date, but this knowledge is being "covered up" by NASA, etc?
If they aren't I'm pretty disappointed in them......
To: agere_contra
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posted on
05/07/2006 9:32:47 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: blam
Just another pass of the comet Gop...
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posted on
05/07/2006 9:41:55 AM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(A thread without a comment on immigration is not complete)
To: cmsgop
DOOMED !In 1994, I was part of an observing team which recorded the collision of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with the planet Jupiter.
You should have heard all the dire predictions then!
To: Strategerist
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05/07/2006 9:46:53 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: shorty_harris
...In 1994, I was part of an observing team which recorded the collision of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with the planet Jupiter...
Hey, I wonder if that new Red Spot is in the same hemisphere where the comet parts collided? Or even in the same band as some/most/all(?) of the parts collided?
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05/07/2006 9:47:03 AM PDT
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true_blue_texican
(grateful texan! -- whoops! I'm sober tonight, what happened?)
To: Strategerist
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posted on
05/07/2006 9:47:49 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: blam; Strategerist; SunkenCiv; GSlob
And more: "Chasing Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann"
http://www.skyhound.com/sh/73P.html
"May 4: Component B continues to evolve quickly. There are reports that it has faded and become more diffuse. Bob King, observing with a 10-inch, reports "Using 357x I resolved a compact cloud or condensation immediately following the nucleus of B that made the nuclear region look like a very close, fuzzy double star."
May 3: there are as yet unconfirmed reports that B is in outburst (which means it may have brightened significantly) as well as an abrupt change in morphology of the nucleus.
May 2: images are once again showing a double nucleus in component B
May 1: C is naked eye, B is obvious in binoculars, G is difficult, R is in outburst and now visible in an 8-inch telescope. See the Current Appearance section below for more info.
April 30: Component C is a confirmed naked-eye object. "
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posted on
05/07/2006 9:50:22 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: blam
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posted on
05/07/2006 10:43:59 AM PDT
by
UnklGene
To: blam
What this could be is the beginning of a meteor shower. Some meteor showers follow the orbits of comets, and some seem to have no comet anymore. Once this comet is totally fragmented the earth can pass through the debris trail with no other effect than a mid-May meteor storm, but the more the debris is distributed along the orbit the less intense the storm will be.
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05/07/2006 10:49:35 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Off touch and out of base)
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