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WATCH LIVE TODAY @ 1 pm ET: Comet ISON Buzzes the Sun, SpaceX Rocket Launch
Space.com ^ | 28 November, 2013 | Staff

Posted on 11/28/2013 8:24:35 AM PST by Errant

NASA will hold a live Google+ hangout on Thursday (Nov. 28) to webcast the solar passage of Comet ISON as it whips around the sun. The webcast will begin at 1 p.m. EST (1800 GMT) and last until 3:30 p.m. EST (2030 GMT). You will be able to watch the webcast live in the window below at the start time. LATEST STORY: Comet ISON Makes Thanksgiving Day Sun Flyby Today: Watch It Live Online

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: astronomy; comet; cometison; greencomet; ison; science; space; sun
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Should be interesting. ISON speed now approaching 700,000,000 mph.
1 posted on 11/28/2013 8:24:35 AM PST by Errant
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To: SunkenCiv; machogirl; winoneforthegipper; The Cajun

fyi


2 posted on 11/28/2013 8:25:22 AM PST by Errant
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Oops, too many zeros... Correction, make that 700,000 mph! lol


3 posted on 11/28/2013 8:31:28 AM PST by Errant
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To: Errant

Thanks, Errant.


4 posted on 11/28/2013 8:55:37 AM PST by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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From a knowledgeable twitter commenter:

@ISONUpdates: comet #ISON @ISONiscoming w/speed >1250000 km/h (>776700MPH) 0.1148% speed of light! 1h 15m to go! pic.twitter.com/42Hlw5fjbn

Landon Curt Noll ‏@landonnoll 12m .@ISONUpdates Comet #ISON moving >0.113% of the speed of light, clocks on #ISON lose 2.2 milliseconds/hour vs Earth! pic.twitter.com/Md9NlMK0BC


5 posted on 11/28/2013 9:29:16 AM PST by Errant
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To: Errant

6 posted on 11/28/2013 9:30:02 AM PST by Errant
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To: Errant
Oops, too many zeros... Correction, make that 700,000 mph! lol

LOLOL!!!
Your original post had old Cajun in the WTH mode for a second, wondering what I missed hearing about :)

7 posted on 11/28/2013 9:54:30 AM PST by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert......Nuff said.)
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To: Errant

Very neat!


8 posted on 11/28/2013 10:15:23 AM PST by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: Errant

Looks like it broke up. Hasn’t reappeared.


9 posted on 11/28/2013 11:06:05 AM PST by prisoner6 ( FREEDOM)
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To: Errant

Last COR1-Behind frame is 18:06:23. Looks like it broke up....


10 posted on 11/28/2013 11:32:58 AM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias... "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
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To: Errant

He’s dead Jim.


11 posted on 11/28/2013 11:47:30 AM PST by whodathunkit
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To: whodathunkit
I blame the Klingons. The real ones, mind you, not the revisionist lobster-heads.


12 posted on 11/28/2013 1:28:13 PM PST by Kip Russell (Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors -- and miss. ---Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Errant

Heck, since the sucker didn’t reappear, maybe you were right originally about the 700,000,000 mph :)


13 posted on 11/28/2013 1:48:25 PM PST by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert......Nuff said.)
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14 posted on 11/28/2013 1:50:47 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Errant

Looks like it survived!


15 posted on 11/28/2013 2:42:01 PM PST by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: winoneforthegipper

oooops forgot the link!

http://soho.esac.esa.int/data/realtime/c2/1024/latest.html


16 posted on 11/28/2013 2:42:35 PM PST by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: winoneforthegipper

Alright! Cool!!! I mean hot! lol


17 posted on 11/28/2013 2:51:20 PM PST by Errant
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To: The Cajun

Lol, I forgot to engage my brain before engaging the keyboard...


18 posted on 11/28/2013 2:52:38 PM PST by Errant
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To: Errant

yeah some guru’s are saying it’s a ghost but bs on that...now way it would look like that....!


19 posted on 11/28/2013 2:56:03 PM PST by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: winoneforthegipper; Errant

OK, the original stuff I had read earlier said that it didn’t reemerge.


20 posted on 11/28/2013 2:58:30 PM PST by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert......Nuff said.)
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