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.

[ttdriver]

Put your money on the sun.

[Pagey]

One of the fascinating things I've learned online, is how material flows back towards the sun. If someone would've suggested that 20 years ago, he'd have been laughed out of town. The "Astronomy Picture Of The Day", w/ a Detailed Caption from Nov 2001.

Quote: "...the cloud seems to be moving inward at 50-100 kilometers per second..."

Click on the Picture and you can see the 3 Hour, 4 Picture set. It's truly amazing.


http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap011129.html

[In_25_words_or_less]

Comet Bradfield is plunging toward the sun; at closest approach on April 17th it will be well inside the orbit of Mercury.

Run! It's a Mercury Comet!

[cyborg]

and lots of duct tape

[hchutch]

Yup. Or a giant lighter...

[Orlando]

nice car :0

Just found this out regarding the comet path it will miss the sun according to NASA simulation data:


http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2004/15apr04/Bradfieldanim320.gif


I hope these are not the same NASA scientists that were on the failed Mars spacecrafts mission? lol :0

Resuming normal programming

[searchandrecovery]

We'll launch a Titan IV out of Vandenberg with a really big match...

Well, that sounds good in theory, but from years of watching science-fiction I know that space is a vacuum. Might have to use electricity, like the arc from touching the jumper cables on a car battery together.

[Poohbah]

"World's Biggest Zippo launched to relight Sun"

Of course, the NYT headline from when the comet hit:

COMET EXTINGUISHES SUN, WORLD DOOMED
Women and Minorities Hardest Hit

[Poohbah]

Rub a pair of giant wool socks together :o)

[Conservative4Ever]

Sun-approaching comets sometimes break-apart. Will Comet Bradfield survive?

It will if it goes at night.

Red

[Nick Danger]

STAY OUT OF DA BUSHES!

I hate to be the Ebonics grammar cop, but the correct phrase is "Stay out da Bushes."

[Truth666]

Can please one of those "science" journalists that brainwash people with evolution theory, please ask NASA why are they so busy with water in Mars that they

didn't discover the largest comet ever approaching the sun ?

- discovered by Willliam A. Bradfield (Yankalilla, SA) three days ago ...

[dead]

Is it getting hot in here,
or is it just me?

[RipSawyer]

"Gravity is inexorable."

I used to be inexorable but now I am ex this and ex that.

[Orlando]

That's a good question.

This comet/tail is big/long, I wonder if this comet is coming in from the front of the sun, or behind the sun ?

If it's made of H20, it should be melting more and more as it gets closer and closer to the Sun ?

right ?
They say(I heard) that comets are big snowballs & rock ?

[Starter]

Well I guess on the Sun, Hot Fudge Sundae is falling on a Saturday this week.

[Enduring Freedom]

If a comet is composed of water, then the question must be asked: IS THERE ALSO LIFE ON COMETS?

Could be more tragic than we understand, folks.

The cure for Liberalism could be on that comet.

[21st Century Man]

Captain, it is my opinion that it is no mere comet...it is a booger that escaped the earth's atmosphere when Ted Kennedy sneezed during an episode of hay-fever.

Furthermore, it would be illogical to assume that a phasers would have any affect...

[searchandrecovery]

and lots of duct tape

In the Post-Sun world there's going to be two types of people - those who had the insight to stock up on lightbulbs & duct tape, and those that didn't. And let me tell ya, the guys with lb&dt are gonna get all the hot chicks.

[kinghorse]

One of your's is trapped in a Mariner's uniform. Save him. Save him.