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(Update)October 20th,BIG GREEN COMET...
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| October 4th, 2010
Posted on 10/04/2010 10:17:03 AM PDT by TaraP
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To: TaraP
Certainly interesting and worth paying some attention to, imho.
thx.
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posted on
10/04/2010 11:28:14 AM PDT
by
Quix
(Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
To: airborne
Comet - It will make your teeth turn green
Comet - It tastes like gasoline
Comet - It will make you vomit
So get some Comet, and vomit, today
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posted on
10/04/2010 11:30:25 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Texas Rangers - AL West Champions)
To: QualityMan
jeff wayneIndeed. The fact that the comet is green reminded me of the "green mist" which trailed the capsules launched by the Martians.
Of course, the segment of the intro I quoted was narrated by the late Richard Burton. Lead vocalist for the sung portions was Justin Hayward of the Moody Blues.
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posted on
10/04/2010 12:23:51 PM PDT
by
southernnorthcarolina
("Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own." -- Aesop)
To: TaraP
The icy nucleus of comet 103P/Hartley 2 measures no more than a couple of kilometers across. That tiny nugget, however, is surrounded by an vast atmosphere of gas more than 150,000 km in diameter—
Pretty unusual, it doesn’t sound like outgassing but
what kind of mass would you need to hold that atmosphere
in place, to travel along with the nucleus??
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posted on
10/04/2010 12:30:48 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: agere_contra; null and void
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posted on
10/04/2010 12:30:56 PM PDT
by
LucyT
To: TaraP
A Big Green Comet?
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posted on
10/04/2010 12:34:54 PM PDT
by
commish
(Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to preserve it.)
To: agere_contra
Those particles have been blasted off the comet by the solar wind, forming (depending on their size and type) its tail and halo. They won't stay with the comet. That makes sense (unlike most of the rest of this thread). Thanks.
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posted on
10/04/2010 12:57:23 PM PDT
by
Interesting Times
(For the truth about "swift boating" see ToSetTheRecordStraight.com)
To: tet68
It’s not being held in place. It is diffusing out into space.
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posted on
10/04/2010 2:26:11 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 622 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
To: southernnorthcarolina
Correct you are.
And, Parson Nathaniel was none other than Phil Lynott, lead man of Thin Lizzy.
I had that LP when I was a lad, and most recently, found it online, and it is securely on my Ipod now....ULLA
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posted on
10/04/2010 2:48:08 PM PDT
by
QualityMan
(Don't Tread on Me)
To: null and void
Still doesn’t make sense, a kilometer sized object is
not going to have enough mass to hold an atmosphere
even temporarily, where did it come from?
I’m confused.
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posted on
10/04/2010 2:53:49 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: tet68
That’s a bit like asking where the water around an ice cube came from.
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posted on
10/04/2010 3:04:45 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 622 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
To: QualityMan
I happen to be listening to the Blackstone Audiobooks production right now.
I’m amused that the Brit reading it (Christopher Hurt) pronounces ‘ULLA’ as ‘allah’.
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posted on
10/04/2010 3:09:08 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 622 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
To: null and void
That stuff around an ice cube is called scotch.
So all this atmosphere we are talking about came
from the frozen solid nucleus? It was originally
much larger and made up of solidified gas that is
now difusing into space, and much faster as it
nears the sun?
Be interesting to see the photos.
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posted on
10/04/2010 3:34:10 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: tet68
Yes. At sea level 1 cubic mile of ice makes 1700 cubic miles of water vapor. Multiply that volume by a bunch to get how many cubic miles of near-vacuum vapor that equals!
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posted on
10/04/2010 3:53:06 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 622 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
To: Interesting Times; TaraP
Remarkable that such a small mass can drag such distant particles along in its gravity field.I think it's a little more than 'remarkable'. I don't think we actually have a good scientific explanation.
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posted on
10/04/2010 4:52:40 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(lame and ill-informed post)
To: TaraP
Its the Comet Empire!
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posted on
10/04/2010 4:56:35 PM PDT
by
King Moonracer
(Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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