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Approaching Comet (inter solar system)
Spaceweather.com ^ | 1.09.2009 | n/a

Posted on 01/08/2009 4:27:09 AM PST by wolfcreek

Comet Lulin (C/2007 N3), discovered in 2007 by a Strait-bridging team of astronomers from Taiwan and China, is swinging around the sun and approaching Earth. Astronomer Karzaman Ahmad sends this picture taken Jan. 7th from the Langkawi National Observatory in Malaysia:

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: c2007n3; catastrophism; comet; comet2007n3; cometlulin; doomsday; greencomet; lulin
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To: silverleaf
How many people woould pay their mortgages if they knew we were facing extinction in 3 months?

Again, would it matter?
21 posted on 01/08/2009 5:15:52 AM PST by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: wolfcreek

If you can’t see any tail you’re in the wrong bar. ;^)


22 posted on 01/08/2009 5:19:25 AM PST by saganite
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To: SlowBoat407

That wasn’t fair I just finished breakfast.


23 posted on 01/08/2009 5:20:45 AM PST by Rappini ("Pro deo et Patria.)
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To: decimon
Gee, I hate surprises.

Me too. I've had enough surprises in the past year to last the rest of my life.

24 posted on 01/08/2009 5:25:17 AM PST by AFreeBird
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To: wolfcreek
Sort of like a tornado, if you can't see it moving, kiss your ass goodbye.
25 posted on 01/08/2009 5:26:11 AM PST by boomop1
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To: Rappini

Me too, and it’s my birthday wife took me out to eat Hardee’s.


26 posted on 01/08/2009 5:27:58 AM PST by boomop1
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To: wolfcreek
I don’t know. That seems a little close for comfort. (especially since they don’t know how it will react as it approaches the Sun.)

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HURRY! Somebody get Harry Stamper on the phone. And call Steve Tyler. The end of humanity could use some Aerosmith background music.

27 posted on 01/08/2009 5:31:45 AM PST by RoadKingSE (How do you know that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash?)
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To: wolfcreek

I saw a movie once where lots of people turned into brain eating zombies because of some comet or asteroid. I hope it doesn’t happen again......


28 posted on 01/08/2009 5:32:53 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (Today is just a little more special than yesterday.)
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To: Hot Tabasco
I saw a movie once where lots of people turned into brain eating zombies because of some comet or asteroid. I hope it doesn’t happen again......

So, that's how we got all the moonbat liberals!
29 posted on 01/08/2009 5:36:24 AM PST by ZX12R
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To: AFreeBird

Almost seems like an apt way to finish out 2008.....but alas, 2008 is already closed.


30 posted on 01/08/2009 5:41:15 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (Guns don't kill people; abortion clinics do.)
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To: Hot Tabasco; ZX12R

see post #20

“Night of the Comet”


31 posted on 01/08/2009 5:41:18 AM PST by wolfcreek (I see miles and miles of Texas....let's keep it that way.)
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To: Eye of Unk

You talking about the new one?

He’s be on the boob tube babbling banal bromides right up to the very end.


32 posted on 01/08/2009 5:56:19 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: SouthDixie
No, Jupiter will align with Mars and peace will guide the planet and love will fill the sky.
33 posted on 01/08/2009 5:56:29 AM PST by sticker
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To: wolfcreek

Oh, once more, just for Auld Lang Syne:

it’s BUSH’S FAULT!!!


34 posted on 01/08/2009 5:59:36 AM PST by Humble Servant (See you all in the Gulag.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Pickins are gonna be slim in the blue states.


35 posted on 01/08/2009 6:12:18 AM PST by TommyTrojan
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To: SlowBoat407

Aw Man ....Don’t do that stuff.....


36 posted on 01/08/2009 6:21:14 AM PST by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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To: cripplecreek

No, that is what requires one to sit on one of the inflatable donut thingies.......


37 posted on 01/08/2009 6:26:56 AM PST by ALASKA (I feel more like I do today than I did yesterday.....)
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To: Eye of Unk
I wonder if there was a truly life threatening extinction event on the near horizon would our glorious leader tell us?

12/21/12

38 posted on 01/08/2009 6:35:18 AM PST by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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To: Don Corleone

Actually that date is going to have all of the worlds conspiracy theorists going nuts, I don’t believe it has any meaning.


39 posted on 01/08/2009 6:39:43 AM PST by Eye of Unk (How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! SA)
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