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Comet ISON

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foodbuffet11
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I hope this guy is right. Though he may be downplaying the comet's potential. It is feasible to believe that an object big enough, could cause possible damage if in fact that object makes impact. Possible impact without anyone noticing? Look at what happened in Russia. Plus, it is rather hard to rely on NASA solely because of lack of info and non-disclosure issues. ISON has the potential to cause meteor showers, I mean ISON is certainty larger than Haley's comet, which every year causes the Leonid showers.




and what if Mars altered its path just a fraction of a percent? Couldn't this cause its returning course to differ significantly than what was perviously stated?


Me bought a telescope.

I'm not a scientist, so I know little to nothing and I mean nothing, not just science but cooking, everything, I am just fascinated by comets. Does anyone know anything about this comet?



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foodbuffet11
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NASA is down, so I can't get any new info and space.com server is hacked. My security software says that if I open that website I will get malware?
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humpty
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Just emailed this to my earth science teacher, ill see what he says tomorrow.
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foodbuffet11
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PM me if you get an email from your teacher.
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LivinOuttaBounZ
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BUMP

Keeping this thread alive since we should know in a week or so whether or not ISON will survive its sun encounter. 750,000 miles from the sun is pretty close for an ice cube.
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salomon097
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ISON poses no threat to earth, dont get off from that doomporn
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ThaLorax
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Didn't make it past the sun. No fun.
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Bumblesteeze
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It actually made it past perihelion!

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DrZoidberg
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Didn't they say it lost mass and kind of fell apart from getting so close to the sun?
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LivinOuttaBounZ
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Yep, looks like no visible show for us Earthlings this time. Which is a huge bummer, would have been a rad flyby!
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fortyvalve
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It did actually, it got severely damaged at first, but something emerged on the other side of the sun and is growing a tail, and it also has a completely new trajectory. They just say "something" but it's hard to believe it isn't ISON and another random object just showed up in its place. There has been a lot of myth and doomporn about this comet but if it actually makes it into the visible spectrum for us it will put on a hell of a show, hopefully some people on here can get some photos of it.
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fortyvalve
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http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/29/us/ison-comet/index.html?hpt=hp_t2


in this pic notice it's tail coming from the bottom right corner, and after it passes the sun look in the top left corner, still a small sign of life in it.
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howlongcanausern
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God's creations can be so intriguing
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LivinOuttaBounZ
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LOLZ

I see what you did there.
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gotti
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so i was listening to npr and the most interesting thing about this comet is that we are going to be able to collect its particles and analyze them which is great because this particular comet has been flying through space but has never known what "heat" is so the particles we are measuring are perceivably directly from the big bang
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ThaLorax
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Sweet but I wanted to see it with my bare eyes.
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